about

My artistic practice delves into the nuanced interplay of memory, heritage, culture, class, etiquette, and domesticity, employing the mediums of ceramics, sculpture, and painting. Infused with a discernible undercurrent of whimsy, humor, and playfulness, my creative work converges historical vessels, ornamental artifacts, domestic structures, kitsch elements, wallpaper motifs, and embellishments to articulate narratives or construct novel contextual frameworks. Within this artistic milieu, rebellion, humor, memory, and nostalgia are pivotal catalysts propelling my creative process.

In exploring the thematic terrain surrounding concepts of home and culture, my reflective engagement contemplates the inherent dualities manifest in both my identity and the milieu surrounding me. The dichotomies of high and low culture, refined and unrefined aesthetics, propriety and rudeness, tastefulness and trashiness, collectibility and kitsch, stasis and dynamism, order and disorder, interiority and exteriority, seriousness and amusement collectively echo the composite nature of the world in which I was raised and the memories that define my artistic sensibility.

I grew up in a rural community outside of Savannah, Georgia. I received dual BFAs in Ceramics and Art Education from the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia and an MFA in Ceramics from San Diego State University. I live in San Diego, California, where I teach ceramics in the School of Art + Design at San Diego State University.