ABOUT

Whenever the women in my family are anxious, they over-water the houseplants. You can always tell if a stressful event is upon the family by the little streams running from the base of the amaryllis or the Spanish lavender in the kitchen. You can gauge anxiety levels in the men because they get quiet and they organize; they tidy and clean and put the tea bags in the cookie jar. I am like neither. Instead, I fumble with my hands to produce objects. I layer and couple some abject, disgusting, beautiful, loaded materials to construct a defense against vulnerability.

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EDUCATION

2017 MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Metalsmithing Department

2014 BFA, Double Major Program, Fine Arts and Psychology, The College of New Jersey

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018 a line of beauty: Cranbrook House inhabitation, Bloomfield Hills, MI

2017 MoreLand, EDITION Simone DeSousa Gallery, Detroit, MI

2017 Experiencing Perspectives, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Farmington Hills, MI

2017 Spring Annual Group Exhibition, Next Step Studios and Gallery, Ferndale, MI

2017 Graduate Degree Exhibition, Cranbrook Academy of Art

2016 Trans-form / Coffee and Tea, Marzee Gallery, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

2014 White Noise, Thesis Exhibition, TCNJ Art Gallery

2014 Young Galaxy, Artworks, Trenton, NJ

2014 Light and Dark: Biennial, Kappa Pi International Art Honor Fraternity, TCNJ Art Gallery

2013 Ensky, Installation Supervisor / Co-Curator, TCNJ Art Gallery

2013 A Nu Show, Installation Supervisor / Co-Curator, TCNJ Art Gallery

2012 All Cats are Grey in the Dark, Kappa Pi International Art Honor Fraternity, TCNJ Art Gallery

CURATION

2018 Co-Curation of Inside Voices, with Evie Kalfaian and Anna Kalfaian at onsite gallery at The Toshiko Takaezu Studio Project, Quakertown, NJ. Exhibition included rarely-seen work by Toshiko Takaezu, and objects from her home and studio spaces.

LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS

2011-2014 Presentation at "Art Attack" Prospective Students' Day, TCNJ

2015 Hair Seminar, Co-Presenter, Metalsmithing Department, Cranbrook Academy of Art

HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS

2014 Graduated magna cum laude , The College of New Jersey

2014 Nominated by TCNJ Faculty committee to International Sculpture Center:

Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award

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