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I grew up in a strict religious environment where patriarchal control was cloaked in devotion. That embodied experience of power—how it shapes belief, space, and behavior—continues to inform my sculpture. I work in bronze, a material historically tied to permanence, reverence, and authority. I also work against it, covering it in silver nitrate patinas that shimmer like futuristic machinery.
My figures reference classical form and monumental symmetry, yet they erupt with open mouths, unruly hair, and rear ends. These contradictions—between the ideal and the absurd, the sacred and the playful—disrupt the traditional language of power. I’m interested in how sculpture can both replicate and resist control and how touch, humor, and eros can challenge forms that once demanded reverence.
Ultimately, I see sculpture as a site where control and vulnerability collide—a space to question who holds power, how it operates, and what happens when we interrupt it.
Solo and two-person exhibitions include Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY (2024); Fahrenheit Madrid, Spain (2022); Zidoun Bossuyt, Luxembourg (2020); NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, New York, NY (2019); Howards Gallery, Athens, GA (2019); Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT (2019); Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY (2018); Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY (2017); Eleven Rivington, New York, NY (2015); 4 AM, New York, NY (2015); Bodyrite at Asya Geisberg, New York, NY (2014); and John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY (2013).
Group exhibitions include Infinite Regress: Mystical Abstractions from the Permanent Collection and Beyond, Kansas City, MO (2024); Full Disclosure, Selections from the Thomas Sewall Collection, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND (2024); Vessel, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (2024); Destiny’s Glitch, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA; High Contrast, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA (2021); Samaritans, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York, NY (2019); No Patience for Monuments, Perrotin Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (2019) Objects Like Us, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (2018); and Rodin and the Contemporary Figurative Tradition, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI (2017), among others.
Her work has been reviewed and featured in publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art in America, Artforum, and The Brooklyn Rail. She received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, and BFA from The University of Pennsylvania and The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.