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I was born in Salem, Oregon and attended Hamline University in St. Paul, MN, where I studied printmaking and 20th century history. I moved back to Oregon in 2011 and earned an MFA in print media from PNCA in 2017.

I am intrigued by the ability of images to communicate beyond the borders of language. Transforming the ordinary stuff of life into prints, drawings, and paintings–pulling the mundane into the realm of the aesthetic and reflective–helps me to understand the people nearest to me and the world in which I live. I am interested in how seeing and recording both reveal and obscure reality, how transforming scenes into “the poetry of the everyday” both clarifies and muddles the truth.

I tend to work intuitively–choosing subjects as they find me and letting my reactions to textures, colors, and compositions guide my process and my work as each piece takes shape. I take my inspiration from people and places close at hand. In the portraits I make of friends and loved ones, I am interested in the space between the sitter and the artist that emerges through the process of watching and of being watched, and ultimately, how that interaction functions when viewed by an audience. I also make cityscapes or landscapes that function as ways to understand my relationship to the places which are shaping me.

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