Artist Statement:
In my current body of work, paintings become a theatrical space for narratives that examine notions of gender, sentimentality, desire, nostalgia, and sincerity. With tableau-style settings and appropriated death and resurrection imagery, I stage scenes overwrought with artifice to question spirituality, beauty, and the human condition. By developing an enigmatic iconography, I aim to generate a vision that is possibly recognizable, as in a romantic fever dream.

Description of Work:
Figurative and landscape oil paintings and drawings
Portrait and commission work
Private painting lessons
Classical ballet dancer and teacher

Education & Training:
MFA, Painting - The New York Academy of Art (2010)
BA, Studio Art - Spring Hill College (2006)

Joffrey Ballet School NYC
Charleston Ballet Theatre
American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive

Affiliations & Awards:
The University of South Alabama: Instructor, Visual Arts
Spring Hill College: Instructor, Visual Arts
Mobile Ballet Company: Principal dancer

Recent Performances / Publications / Expositions:
Individual
Delicate, The Host Gallery, Mobile, AL (2012)
Somewhere In Between, The Mobile Arts Council, Mobile, AL (2010)
Entrechat Trois, The Mobile Arts Council, Mobile, AL (2007)

Group
The Figure Now, National Juried Competition (St. Louis, MO - 2012)
Contours: Five Independent Visions, Thomas Werner Gallery (NY, NY -2011)
Decades Exhibition, The New York Academy of Art (NY, NY - 2010)
You Naughty Children, The New York Academy of Art (NY, NY - 2010)
Off the Walls, Prince Street Gallery (NY, NY - 2010)