I’m an artist who works in various forms and in community, often exploring the topographies, histories, and metaphoric possibilities of our natural and built landscapes (think: volcanoes, deserts, coal mines). I’m engaged with creativity’s role in healing from our individual and collective traumas. Through generative processes of reclaiming, revising, and (re)envisioning, I create wholeness and beauty from discarded things and sparks of memory and imagination.

My paintings and installations have been shown in galleries, museums, and a multi-media theater production. My personal essays have appeared in Catapult and The Rumpus. In 2016 I started an arts-and-justice program for gun violence survivors, which led me to produce the award-winning documentary FIRE THROUGH DRY GRASS (PBS/POV 2023).

I am the recipient of fellowships from the Djerassi and Ucross Foundations and the Headlands Center for the Arts, among others. I have a BFA from the School of Visual Arts (2002), an MFA from Bard College (2007), and a Foundations Certificate from the NY Zen Center for Contemplative Care (2015).