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MFA Painting, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson 2012
BA Studio Art
, University of California, Los Angeles 2006

Gift Sets, Tif Sigfrids, Chinatown NY, 2021
Via Cafe, Tif Sigfrids, Athens, GA, 2021
It's a Process, 2020

What Wind, curated by Eric Palgon, Ceysson & Bénétière, NY, 2019
4Columns
, 2018
One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art (w/ Nancy Shaver), Museum of Contemporary Art, LA 2018
This Long Century, 2018
BABZ Fair with Marley Freeman, Knockdown Center, 2017
Jamie Chan/Matthew Fischer/Nora Griffin/Nicholas Vargelis/Zoë Wright, Brethren, 2017
Painters' Painters Paintings, Dread Lounge, LA, 2017
Squeezing, Nostrand & Greene, Brooklyn, 2015
A Body for the Bedroom, Bed, Brooklyn 2014
The Blind Hang-Out, At the Office Box, NY, 2014 Herstory Inventory, Ulrike Muller's project at Brooklyn Museum, NY 2012 Another Romance, UCLA Wight Biennial, 2010 Mystery of the Invisible Clock, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, LA 2008










My work covers a range of subjects, from post-it notes and mundane marginalia to figurative excerpts of Netherlandish renaissance paintings and early baseball cards. The consistency of the images comes from the interiority and presence of an ephemeral gaze, which is characterized by an approach to painting as a medium of constant transformation and transition. 

My palette builds on post-impressionism and the revelatory event of color. Muted tones hold space near gestural applications of symbolic pinks and yellows. The poses of the baseball players turn into meditations completely outside of the relevance of team sports. Navigating the field of representational painting, these baseball players are often bent over, catching groundballs near the bottom of the frame. In a sympathetic posture of effort, the works exemplify a concern with the manual dimensions of looking, from the original baseball cards which were made and circulated by hand, to the baseballers’ gestures, to mark-making which directs your attention towards the momentary. 


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