My background in social work taught me that systems fracture, people improvise, and almost nothing holds exactly as it should. That insight is the backbone of my practice. Every piece begins with an encounter—materials worn by use, marked by rotation, shaped by survival. Some I find, some I construct, but all arrive carrying their own histories and resistances. I meet them on their terms, responding to what they offer instead of forcing a predetermined outcome. The forms that follow often brush against larger conversations around precarity, care, and the politics of making. These themes don’t appear as symbols; they surface through the physical negotiations of the studio—repairing, improvising, testing the limits of what can bear weight and what inevitably gives. I’m drawn to the moment resilience becomes a material gesture—felt, enacted, and embedded in the process itself. The structures I create remain in proximity to the daily instability of contemporary life. They often strain and echo the provisional humanity of an unsteady and insincere world. My work is situated within such tension.
As part of my practice I also direct 325 Project Space, an exhibition and event venue, where I examine how material culture and shared dialogue shape collective experience.
While my work has been largely object-based, I’m increasingly drawn to forms of engagement that unfold in public and social spaces, including walking, conversation, and everyday rituals. My work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions including The Drawing Center, White Columns, Artists Space, the Brooklyn Museum, and The Queens Museum of Art.
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