i wanna stay here
digital drawing
11 x 8.5in
2021

Twenty Clearing / Colonization
12.5x17.5 in
oil, playboy magazine pages (Figures inspired by Carlota Guerrero’s Playboy x ‘celebración sexual’), and biology textbook pages on glass panel
2020

The Moment of Calm Right After Glass Shatters At Your Feet
18x24in⁣⁣⁣
pastel, watercolor, acrylic paint, ink, playboy centerfold, and biology textbook pages on pastel paper⁣⁣ digitally edited using Procreate
2020⁣⁣⁣-2021

Twenty Ascend Diptych
38x50in, 18x24in each panel
oil, gel medium, and paper on canvas
2020

Venus of Urbino
36x40in
oil paint, gel medium, gesso, and collaged paper on canvas
2020

Reclined Nude / White Fragility
24x12in
oil, playboy centerfold, and biology textbook pages on canvas⁣
2020⁣

Deep Sea
12x24in
oil, playboy centerfold, and biology textbook pages on panel
2020

Pop
12x24in
oil, playboy centerfold, and biology textbook pages on panel
2020

Land of Make (you) Believe (anything I want)
12x24in
oil on panel
2020

Beth Dishes Drama at the Dog Park
18x24in
pastel, charcoal, ink, acrylic, gesso, gel medium, and magazine paper on paper
2019

Beth Dishes Drama at the Dog Park is a visual, personal commentary of my observations while watching reality television. While taking a stroll through the dog park with her friend, Beth dishes drama about her sister-in-law, claiming she is not doing feminism correctly.

Hilary
11x14in
watercolor, ink, gel medium, and color-pencil on panel
2019

Service of Loneliness
6x12in
watercolor, color-pencil, ink, marker, and acrylic on panel
2019

Service of Loneliness is a personal and meditative reflection on the heightened sense of empowerment and independence gained from exiting a toxic situation.

Anglerfish Study 2
7x10in
color-pencil, watercolor, ink, gesso, and gel medium on panel
2019

Anglerfish Study 1
7x10in
digital print on homemade paper, color-pencil, and marker on panel
2019

Follow Me
24x36in
color-pencil, watercolor, ink, gesso, collaged paper & gel medium on panel
2019

Follow Me explores contemporary notions of sex, power, and illusion by virtue of social media. The photograph used for reference was taken by Chernyavsky Kiril, a Russian photographer.

Paper Doll 3
color-pencil and pen
9x12in
2018

Paper Doll 2/Tako in the Jungle
10x13in
watercolor, color-pencil, thread, and marker on watercolor paper
2018

Paper Doll 2/Tako in the Jungle is the second painting in my Paper Doll series. Similar to the anglerfish, octopi are a matriarchal species with bizarre reproductive traits, and will sometimes strangle their partners after mating. I painted a portrait of two hybrid, octopus-human paper dolls to poke fun at the strict canon of perfection society places on women.

Paper Doll 1
10.5x14.5in
watercolor, color-pencil, thread, gesso, and marker on watercolor paper
2018

Paper Doll 1 is the first work in my Paper Doll series. While making this series, I was thinking about the strict canon of perfection society places on women, and how children are given toys that comply with these complex standards. This series was also inspired by toys I made for myself throughout my childhood. I loved drawing and cutting paper dolls and sewing dolls that were made from cut fabric and cotton.

For this painting, I sewed an idealized and sexualized “paper doll” figure onto the background by cross-stitching with a needle and thread. I wanted the thread to outline the figure, replacing the head for a noose.

so many women in me, side 2
30x30in
window, oil paint, and my father’s yeshiva workbook
2019

My mother is Catholic and my father is Jewish. According to halakha, the collective body of Jewish religious laws derived from the written and oral Torah, a Jew by birth must be born to a Jewish mother. I created this piece to contemplate my jewish identity and heritage.

The double-sided painting is on an 100-year-old window from the original framework of my family’s home. Framing the portrait is pages from my father’s yeshiva workbook from the 1970s, including doodles and drawings he scribbled throughout. The figure depicted is my Grandmother, and her image reads differently on both sides on the window.

I was inspired to paint this by the disturbingly rising tide of anti-semitic hate-speech in Ocean County, NJ. T To me, walls and windows represent the merged duality of outside assumptions/perspectives and your inside, personal reality and identity.

so many women in me, side 1
30x30in
window, oil paint, and my father’s yeshiva workbook
2019

My mother is Catholic and my father is Jewish. According to halakha, the collective body of Jewish religious laws derived from the written and oral Torah, a Jew by birth must be born to a Jewish mother. I created this piece to contemplate my jewish identity and heritage.

The double-sided painting is on an 100-year-old window from the original framework of my family’s home. Framing the portrait is pages from my father’s yeshiva workbook from the 1970s, including doodles and drawings he scribbled throughout. The figure depicted is my Grandmother, and her image reads differently on both sides on the window.

I was inspired to paint this by the disturbingly rising tide of anti-semitic hate-speech in Ocean County, NJ. Walls and windows represent the merged duality of outside assumptions/perspectives and your inside, personal reality and identity.

Don't Fear the Light
ink
9x12in
2018

Angler Girls
Ink on Drawing Paper
2015
18x24

Bamboo Forest (Side 1),
24x34in
ink gesso and charcoal on watercolor paper
2019

Bamboo Forest, Slide 1 is a plein air drawing inspired by bamboo found in the lush valley of Manoa, and by the ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints in the Lange collection at the Honolulu Museum of Art. In this drawing, I poured ink directly onto the paper and, while the ink was still wet, I used white gesso to describe swaying leaves. When the ink and gesso dried, I used charcoal to define the swinging bamboo stocks, conveying breeze and movement.

Bamboo Forest (Side 2),
24x34in
ink gesso and charcoal on watercolor paper
2019

Bamboo Forest, Slide 2 is the reverse side of my plein air drawing of a bamboo forest. The ink bled directly into the paper, creating an abstracted, mirrored reflection on the reverse side.

Black Lives Matter
9x12in
ink on paper
2020

The rate at which black Americans are killed by police is more than twice as high as the rate for white Americans.

The individuals depicted in this drawing have lost their lives at the hands of police in the U.S. since Eric Garner's death in July 2014:
Akai Gurley, Albert Joseph Davis⁣⁣⁣⁣, Alexia Christian, Anthony Hill⁣⁣⁣⁣, Antwon Rose II, Atatiana Jefferson⁣⁣⁣⁣, Botham Jean, Brendon Glenn⁣⁣⁣⁣, Breonna Taylor, Christian Taylor⁣⁣⁣⁣, Dante Parker, Darrius Stewart⁣⁣⁣⁣, Dominique Clayton, Eric Garner⁣⁣⁣⁣, Eric Harris, Eric Reason⁣⁣⁣⁣, Ezell Ford, Frank Smart⁣⁣⁣⁣, Freddie Carlos Gray, George Floyd⁣⁣⁣⁣, Jerame Reid, Joseph Mann⁣⁣⁣⁣, John Crawford III, Jonathan Sanders⁣⁣⁣⁣, Laquan McDonald, Matthew Ajibade⁣⁣⁣⁣, Michael Brown, Michael Lorenzo Dean⁣⁣⁣⁣, Michael Sabbie, Michelle Cusseaux⁣⁣⁣⁣, Mya Hall, Natasha McKenna⁣⁣⁣⁣, Pamela Turner⁣⁣⁣⁣, Phillip White, Rumain Brisbon⁣⁣⁣⁣, Salvado Ellswood, Samuel DuBose⁣⁣⁣⁣, Sandra Bland, Stephon Clark⁣⁣⁣⁣, Tamir Rice, Tanisha Anderson⁣⁣⁣⁣, Tony Robinson, Tony Terrell Robinson⁣⁣⁣⁣, Victo Larosa III, Walter Lamar Scott⁣⁣⁣⁣, William L. Chapman II⁣⁣⁣⁣, Also depicted: Oluwatoyin Salau

Sea Urchin Study
18x24in
ink and graphite on paper
2019

Not Page
19x25in
charcoal pastel and ink on paper
2018

Four Women
24x34in
ink on watercolor paper
2017

Rose
30x40in
Oil on Canvas
2019

Perception of a Girl With No Hair
36x48in
oil on canvas
2017

Trapeze Swingers
Collaged Paper, Gesso, and Ink on Watercolor Paper
8.5x11in
2016

Cut-Out
Watercolor and Ink
on Watercolor Paper
18x24in
2016

Self Portrait
Ink on Drawing Paper
18x24in
2015

Desnudo
5.5x8.5in
Ink on watercolor paper
2017