My paintings map cognitive spaces exploring language, memory and learning. I use the materiality and history of paint to subvert dominant culture and ideas of representation through tertiary palettes and textures. I create hybrid structures that exist beyond a binary and center queerness and androgyny in order to deconstruct systems and ideas through a lens of care and love.
Sourcing from archives of photos, memory, dreams, and histories in the interest of how these means of existing overlap, the paintings exploit the thresholds, errors, and edits created within these relationships. Inspired by the aesthetics of the Sims and magic of sci-fi, the abstract landscapes imagine extraterrestrial utopias that navigate and celebrate self-hood, home, and the unknown.
They are romanticizing making a new friend, capturing the coincidence of encountering a bug, the archives of personal data. They are nebulous landscapes with amorphous tokens of memory affairs. Mementos from past lives.
I want to decode cryptic and abstruse emotionality to build a shared meaning of existence. To share my deepest thoughts and anxieties while learning yours. To construct a visual representation of the feeling of home, self-hood, and queerness. I want you to feel the overwhelming high of falling in love while simultaneously and anxiously falling apart. I want to make room for you to find yourself in my work in whichever way fits.
education
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2023 School of Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, Masters in Art Teaching, Honors, Boston MA
2016 Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Bachelor of Art in Painting, Departmental Honors, Boston MA
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residencies
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2023 Painting, SVA Summer Residency, School of Visual Arts, NY, NY
exhibitions & projects
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Curatorial Project*
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2023 Digital Media + Sound Exhibition, School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
Digital Graffiti, Alys Beach, Fl
Finger Mullet Film Festival, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine FL
Queer Knowing, All Street Gallery, NY, NY
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2022 Digital Graffiti, Alys Beach, Fl
Faculty Show, Gelb Gallery, Phillips Andover, MA
Outside the Classroom, Gelb Gallery, Phillips Andover, MA
Art After Dark, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL
2021 Women in Abstraction, New Art Center, Newton MA
Women in Abstraction, Virtual Gallery
Some Assembly Required via Boston LGBTQIA Artist Alliance, Distillery Gallery, Boston MA
Blingee Fairy Fields, Loading Festival, Downtown Miami FL
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2019 The Illusion Layer, Boston CyberArts, Jamaica Plain MA
Bold Illusions: Alexandra Rozenman and Renee Silva, Hynes Convention Center, Boston MA
Free Form, LGBTQIA Artist Alliance, Gallery 263, Cambridge MA
Boston Key Party, Stove Gallery, Charlestown MA
Sectional, Dorchester Art Project, Dorchester MA*
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2018 Art on the Marquee: Video Wall via Boston Cyberarts, Boston Convention Center, Boston MA
Matter of Intention, Crossings Gallery @ Harvard Ed Portal, Allston MA
Secret Gardens, Nave Gallery, Somerville MA
Who Needs People When You Can Love Things, Craft & Caro, Boston Design Building, Boston MA*
2017 Crosscurrents, Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia PA
Rose Ceremony, Casablanc, Roxbury MA*
Hydra via Boston LGBTQIA Artist Alliance, Midway Gallery, Boston MA
Coded via Boston LGBTQIA Artist Alliance, Vandernoot Gallery, Cambridge MA
Emotional Currency in the Digital Age, Godine Gallery Boston MA
In Response, Godine Gallery, Boston MA
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2016 A Group Show, Thomas Young Gallery, Boston MA
A House Show, Ratsnest, Allston MA
A conclusion, Godine Gallery, Boston MA*
Into it, over it, Student Life Gallery, Boston MA*
Float dreams = 4D*cosradiansflower+sky; Godine Gallery, Boston MA*
Tombstone (in case you never knew me) Godine Gallery, Boston MA*
Painting All School Show, Doran Gallery, Boston, MA
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2015 ^to Interpretation, Student Life Gallery, Boston MA
SIM BIG, Godine Gallery, Boston MA
(SIM) Artists Making Art About Artists, Godine Gallery, Boston MA*
Though detached, we are close; Visual Studies of Scopaesthesia , Godine Gallery, Boston MA
Carnage, SkyCastle, Roxbury, MA*
Violence Transformed, Roxbury Community College, Roxbury, MA
Painting All School Show, President's Gallery, Boston, MA
Converging Lines, Student Life Gallery, Boston, MA
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2014 The Empathic State, North Crackatorium, Boston, MA*
FA-2D Open House Pop-Up Show, Kennedy Building MassArt, Boston, MA
The Restore Show, North Crackatorium, Boston MA
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awards
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2022. Special Recognition, Digital Graffiti, Alys Beach FL
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2016 Dean Nimmer Auction Award, MassArt
MassArt Merit Award, MassArt
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2015 Gamlbin Paint Supply, MassArt
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2013 Van Gogh Vision Award, North Reading High School
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publications
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2019 Art, Went there: Sectional @ Dorchester Art Project, Boston Hassle
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2018 Art, Went there: Matter of Intention at the Harvard Ed Portal, Boston Hassle
Art, Chosen Shows, POP-UP SHOP: WHO NEEDS PEOPLE WHEN YOU CAN LOVE THINGS – CLOTHING RELEASE, Boston Compass
2017 Review: Art Edition, Boston Compass
Casablanc Market, Boston Magazine
A Self-conscious Cube, Godine Family Gallery Catalog 2015-2016, Blurb Publishing
2016 FA-2D Senior Catalog, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
teaching experience
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2021-Current Art Faculty, Phillips Academy, Andover MA
2020-2021. K-8 Art Teacher, Brookline Public Schools, Brookline MA
2016- Current Art Instructor in Youth Programs, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston MA
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