When the daily painting is complete, I work in the studio on larger, narrative pieces, based on the themes of abject embodiment and social spaces (and the people in them). I use observation as a launching point and combine imagery from found 8mm films. I also participate in illustrated memoir and the field of graphic medicine as an illustrator, scholar, and writer.

Narrative Series - Artist Statement
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Yet There We Are 36" x 36"/Private Collection

Yet There We Are II 30" x 30"

Yet There We Are III 30" x 30"/Private Collection

Too Polite to Ask 60" x 48"/Private Collection

Too Polite to Ask 48" x 60"

Fainting Party I 30" x 40"/Private Collection

Garden Party II 36" x 36"/Corporate Collection

Garden Party I 36" x 36"/Corporate Collection

Garden Party III 30" x 30"/Corporate Collection

Yet There We Are Summer/Private Collection 24 X 24

Garden Party V 30" x 40"

Garden Party IV 30' x 40"

Fainting Party; Reclining Nudes/Private Collection

Have a Seat II 36" x 48"/Corporate Collection

Have a Seat I 36" x 48"/Corporate Collection

Bailamos I

Bailamos II

Dressing Room/It Ties in the Front II 9" x 24"

Tide 48" x 60"/Corporate Collection

Fainting Part IV 30" x 30"/Corporate Collection

Fainting Party II 30" x 30"/Corporate Collection

Fainting Party III 30" x 30"/Corporate Collection

Alee 16" x 20"

Receiving Room II 20" x 30"

Too Polite to Ask II 18" x 24"

Receiving Room I 18" x 24"

It Ties in the Front 18" x 24"

Jeanne Dielman Series
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JEANNE DIELMAN I 36" x 36"

JEANNE DIELMAN II 36" x 36"

JEANNE DIELMAN VIII 40" X 30"

JEANNE DIELMAN IV 40" x 30"

JEANNE DIELMAN III 40" x 30"

JEANNE DIELMAN V 60" x 48"

JEANNE DIELMAN VI 40" x 40"

JEANNE DIELMAN VII 60" x 48"

JEANNE DIELMAN VII 40" x 40"

JEANNE DIELMAN IX 40" x 50"

JEANNE DIELMAN XI 40" x 40"

JEANNE DIELMAN XII 40" x 40"

Daily Painting Project/Embrace the Practice
I’ve been painting every day for 5,800 days and I have no intention of stopping. There is a global interest in creating a daily art practice and mine demonstrates the importance of art as human practice and ties into the latest research from the National Endowment of the Arts, “Healing, Bridging, Thriving, Arts and Culture in Our Communities,” which illustrates new research on the positive psychological and psychological impacts of art as human practice, read more about the project.

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Illustrated Journalism/Memoir

REINDOG PARADE

WALK TO O STREET

SUMMER PEOPLE

SPRING FEST/ARTIST IN RESIDENCE THE TRUSTEES

FIREFLY/ARTIST IN RESIDENCE THE TRUSTEES

HIDEAWAY CIRCUS/ARTIST IN RESIDENCE THE TRUSTEES

Social Spaces and the People In Them
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PICNIC IN THE PARK

FASCINATION NANTASKET BEACH

SOCIAL SPACE IV

TO THE SEA

SWIMMERS SWIMMING

HOUGHTON'S POND

SHORELINE

SOCIAL SPACE N/A

JO'S NAUTICAL

GO FIND SUMMER

JEFF THE UNICORN

WE'LL GET ICE CREAM LATER

RIPTIDE

HOUGHTON'S POND II

Map of the Ocean to Scale/Ongoing
Series of Individual Paintings Grouped to Equal the Entire Ocean 3,875,097,600,000,000 Square Feet
1 square foot completed

MAP OF THE OCEAN TO SCALE, 1 SQ FT

This is Fun/Leisure - On-going

Loosen Up Series
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This series is rooted in uncertainty, embraces error, and resists precision. What might traditionally be labeled a mistake is reframed as discovery, reveling in the happenstance when materials misbehave. It considers what is possible when control loosens, when the hand moves faster than judgment, when a sense of immediacy is evoked and mistakes are a side-effect of a process.

In other words, stop trying so hard to control everything.

A Case for Discipline III

A Case for Discipline II

A Case for Discipline IV

A Case for Discipline I

That Part We Didn’t Mean II

That Part We Didn’t Mean III

That Part We Didn’t Mean I

Evidence We Were There I

Evidence We Were There IV

A Case for Discipline V

Evidence We Were There II

Evidence We Were There III

That Part We Didn’t Mean IV

Graphic Medicine - Illustration & Scholarship - click for more info
Graphic medicine is defined as the intersection between the medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare (Czerwiec, 2015).

GRAPHIC NOVEL/GRAPHIC MEDICINE

THIS MIGHT HURT A LITTLE, What do we do when we’ve lost a sense of belonging? We seek a new context. The main character got cancer 20 years ago and then got better. And every day that she wakes up she thinks “it’s a great day to not be dead.” She’s the 1 in 52 people who got cancer, the 68% who survived, the 16.2 out of 1000 married people who got divorced, the 10% of women who can’t have kids, and is 1 of the 21,575,000 singles online right now looking for a match. It’s not the life that she had planned. We’ve all faced odds and if you haven’t yet, odds are that you probably will in your lifetime, and despite the odds, in the meantime we are all seeking more, but more of what? More life. The story takes place over an endless summer of eternal optimism in believing that finding that special someone is just a numbers game but through the scores of single potential matches that she meets online dating, her perspective shifts from eternal optimism - to toxic optimism - to cruel optimism. It becomes increasingly evident that surviving cancer is not why everything happens for a reason.