STATEMENT

 

My recent body of work emerged after moving from my hometown of Sarasota, Florida to New York City. Distance allowed me to see the place I came from with a new perspective. What once felt stable and familiar now feels fragile, as if the social and emotional foundation I grew up on is beginning to crack.

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These paintings explore girlhood, suburban life, and the uneasy transition into adulthood. They reflect the experience of growing up in a small American town while becoming increasingly aware of larger global realities and political uncertainty. As my generation moves into adulthood and inherits the future of America, the work questions what it means to build an identity within a culture that can feel unstable, performative, or difficult to trust.

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The paintings are created through a range of processes and material approaches. Some works use poured paint and experimental mediums, while others are more representational, depicting specific places, objects, or memories. Through this variation, I am investigating how many ways the same emotional reality can be communicated. Each painting approaches the same fracture from a different angle: memory, place, femininity, nostalgia, and disillusionment.