Freedom of movement and the freedom to roam, themes of past and present, and family and relationships, are highlighted in my work. I make lists, take photographs and glean from my environment and surroundings. I walk in urban, rural, and wild settings, and write in connection with making objects, usually reflecting on family and relationships, and observing how the past and the present exist at the same time. 

With sculptural objects formed in concrete, I make spatial fields by placing basic concrete forms; rods, planks, slabs, wedges and ramps, in an environment. The space includes an invitation to viewers to enter the field, an architectural invitation, and to move or roam freely around the objects. The freedom to roam and move has the power for us to create an inner harmony and our own inner score. 

I live and work in Oakland and have exhibited in the Bay Area and Northern California and New York. I am a graduate of California College of the Arts, San Francisco Art Institute and Santa Clara University.

Awards and Residencies

2020 California Contemporary Sculptors, Solo Show Award, Chico Art Center

2018 La Macina di San Cresci, Greve in Chianti, Italy

2014 Headlands Center for the Arts, Affiliate Artist, 2013-2014, Sausalito, CA

2013 Headlands Center for the Arts, Affiliate Artist, 2013-2014, Sausalito, CA

2010 Travel Grant, Canada, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA 

2002 Kate Millet’s The Women’s Art Colony Farm, Poughkeepsie, NY 

1997 Gamblin Prize in Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 

Selected Exhibitions (2011-2022)

2022 Chico Art Center, Solo exhibition, Freedom to Roam, Chico, CA

2021 Chico Art Center, California  Contemporary Sculpture, Chico, CA

2020 Silicon Valley Sculpture Exhibition, Menlo College, Menlo Park, CA

2018 Emeryville Arts Show, Emeryville, CA

2017 Roam, Solo Show Dominican University, San Marco Gallery, San Rafael, CA

2017 Emeryville Arts Show, Emeryville, CA

2016 Present Ground, Hayes Valley Art Works, San Francisco, CA

2016 Arcsine for Agave, Oakland, CA 

2015 Material Turn On, 341 Lexington, San Francisco, CA

      Spark Arts, San Francisco, CA

2014  Stumbling Block, Tmoro Projects, Santa Clara, CA

               Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

 2013  Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

            (Un)Formalisms, Needles and Pens, San Francisco, CA

           ArtPad 2013, San Francisco, CA

2012  I’m So Goth I’m Dead, Queen’s Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA

              CCA MFA Thesis Show, San Francisco, CA
              John Baldessari: Class Assignments, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, SF, CA

2011  Contemporary Italy, North/South Gallery, Oakland, CA


Teaching 

2021 California Sculptor’s Symposium, Concrete Workshop, Central Coast of California

2011 California College of the Arts, Teaching Assistant, Screenprint  I, Oakland, CA

2008  Ecole Bilingue de Berkeley, Printmaking, Berkeley, CA

2007  Ecole Bilingue de Berkeley, Printmaking, Berkeley, CA


Education 

MFA California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

BFA San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

BA Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA


Press 

2020 The Mercury News, “Art makes a comeback at outdoor Silicon Valley Sculpture Fair” 

2019 The Artistic Time 10, La Macina di San Cresci, Greve, Italy

2014   Photo Feature: Headlands Center for the Arts Spring Open Studio, SF Art Enthusiast 

2013   Review: “(Untitled) Formalisms” by Leora Lutz, SFAQ

2012   Play Dead, a review by Natasha Boas in SFAQ

               What can Goth do for Politics, a review by Julia Glosemeyer in Daily Servin

Affiliations

2019 Founder The Sparks, a monthly meeting group for women artists

2019 Co-Director, The Painting Salon