"Access to justice involves issues that lie beyond the scope of any single group. The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and to mutual respect."
Jimmy Carter
Proclamation 4565—Law Day, U.S.A., 1978
I paint to give form to the pressure of living inside overlapping, conflicting systems—law, belief, culture, and infrastructure. My work explores what it means to survive and stay visible within structures that were never built with care for the people inside them. I build layered surfaces on large cotton canvas using mixed media: oil, acrylic, charcoal, ink, pastel, paper, and plaster. Case law pages, legal notepads, and sticky notes constantly appear as an underlayer as if the law is embedded beneath the surface, shaping everything above it while staying partially hidden.
Currently, I am exploring abstract portraiture. My work thus far avoids polished representation. Faces repeat, distort, and fragment—a rejection of systems that reduce people to categories or cases, and it is consistent with my past work. I believe anger, frustration, and play are valid forms of knowledge.
Another collection in the works addresses our current political climate. After all, it is hard to remain silent as both a painter and an attorney when the very thing I have studied is falling apart. My sensitivity to injustice acts as a fuel, not an obstacle. Repetition, texture, and physical gesture are how I insist that feeling is inseparable from thinking.
I value my creative direction and control when exhibiting my own work. Works are placed privately with collectors. Studio viewings in DUMBO are by appointment only. However, I am open to exhibition opportunities.