STATEMENT OF WORK

I use painting, drawing, installation and video to create intimate worlds and encounters with microscopic, scientific, and biologic environments invisible to the naked eye. My paintings bring to the surface understories, the insides and outsides of living and nonliving beings, from intestinal bacteria to fungi to geological terrains and mineral compositions. I weave together traditional painting techniques with technical microscopic imagery and museological practices of display to critically consider the methods in which we visualize and document the natural world. 

From Galileo’s telescopic moon drawings to Robert Hooke’s microscopic illustrations, I am curious about historical ways of both scientifically and artistically documenting, categorizing, and making meaning of such observations. My practice and process is interdisciplinary and cross-informed from anthropology, biology, the sciences, and the humanities.

My vibrant and saturated colors of both oil and natural pigments compose seemingly abstract compositions, yet still maintain a material and symbolic relationship to the cellular structures, biological, and geological phenomena they depart from. 

I connect the history of science, technical imagery, and practices of visualizing and documenting nature with tools like the microscope–in order to question the dominant visual representations in nature that further a dualistic and divided vision between man and nature.