My recent paintings situate the viewer in a space of vague familiarity, but disrupted out of the intended identification with joy and pleasure promised, and plunged into a dystopian space of anxiety and despair. Nostalgic imagery from Americana (especially the American Southwest, where I grew up) and the aesthetics of meme culture and smartphone interfaces melt together in a metaphorical performance of conquest, alienation, escapism, consumerism, and existential dread. Climate change and motherhood stirred up much of this content for me, but the viewer is left to unpack how this mass culture constructs consensus reality and how strong a hold it has in shaping the future. There is always an element of humor that makes the underpinning dread wholly worthwhile.
Professional Experience
Significant Publications, Presentations and Exhibitions
2026 – solo exhibition: Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI
2025 – 63rd Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
2024 – 27th Media City Film Festival, Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan
Experimental Film Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
Mannheim Arts and Film Festival, Mannheim, Germany
Paradise Film Festival, Budapest, Hungary
2023 – Wealthy Theatre Presents: Experimental Selections from Open Projector Night, GRAM, Grand Rapids, MI
International Art Film Festival, Birmingham, England
The Arthouse Film Festival, Austin, TX
Bridge Film and Video Festival, Bridge Art, Chicago, IL
16th Arizona Underground Film Festival, Tucson, AZ
Videoart.ist, International Video Art Screening Program, Turkey
40th Asolo Art Film Festival, Asolo, Italy
26th Revelation Perth International Film Festival, Perth, Australia
2022 – High Tatras Film & Video Festival, Vysoké Tatry, Slovakia
2021 – /’fu:bar/ 2021, Zagreb, Croatia
MiraBanART, Photography, Painting, and Video Art Contest, London, England
Arizona International Film Festival, Tucson, AZ
Silhouette Festival, Paris, France
Vierte Welle Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
Les Femmes Underground International Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
2020 – 9th ULTRACINEMA – CINE EXPERIMENTAL Y DE FOUND FOOTAGE, Tepic, Mexico
Video Art Festival Turku, Turku, Finland
Trans Stellar Film Festival, Detroit, MI
Drunken Film Fest Oakland, Oakland, CA
9th Olhar de Cinema – Curitiba International Film Festival, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
33rd CINEMQ, Shanghai, China
Dreamers of Dreams Film Festival, London, United Kingdom
44th Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, Weiterstadt, Germany
Porto Femme International Film Festival, Porto, Portugal
8th International Short Film Festival Canton, GuangZhou, China
7th GOA SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, Kothrud Pune, Maharashtra, India
29th Arizona International Film Festival, Tucson, AZ
6th Bogotá Experimental Film Festival, Bogotá, Columbia
6th Fusion – South Europe Int’l Film Festival, Valencia, Spain
7th The Americas Film Festival, New York, NY
Hard to Choose, Hard to Lose, honorable mention group exhibition (painting), PLAYGROUND DETROIT, Detroit, MI
26th TRMF Animation Competition, Twin Rivers Media Festival, Asheville, NC
58th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
17th Oxford Film Festival, Oxford, MS
18th International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival on Wheels, Istanbul, Turkey
Heater Theatre, Neon Heater Video Art Screening Series, Lubbock, TX
1st Radical Womyn Film Festival, Sydney, Australia