Sculpture on display at Alinea Restaurant, Chicago, IL

Sculpture on display at Alinea Restaurant, Chicago, IL

My sculptures are made primarily from repurposed and unconventional materials. Composed of many layers, the artwork incorporates material found in the urban environment and elements of the everyday. These sculptures touch on themes such as fragility of life, memory and obsolescence. They reference the values of today and our material world and are meant to provoke thought and emotion while also communicating on a more universal level.  

In these abstracted figures repurposed materials are used to convey the captured moment and experiences that make up ones life. Whether significant or forgotten, they represent the essence of who we are as individuals. A loss of memory of these moments reference ones aging and a longing for an earlier life. 

My sculptures deal with the transformation of an idea, emotion, and vision into a personal and symbolic vocabulary of form. Personal memorabilia, everyday objects and unconventional organic materials are used to create constructions that have feminine references of beauty, aging, illness and grief. Multi-layered colorful surfaces are both textural and dynamic, similar to many of my paintings, creating another level of interest. Gestures and various structural elements incorporated in these pieces build a personal portrait which is intentionally obscured. Through formal composition and a sculptural art vocabulary these works are meant to operate on multiple levels inviting various interpretations depending on the viewer's experiences.