My studio is in a white house in Northeast Ithaca near Sapsucker Woods. I paint colorful bold acrylic, watercolor and sumi ink paintings. I also create mixed media installations and ceramics. I’m inspired by the ecology around me, as well as mythological creatures and different cultural heritages.
I graduated from my doctoral program in Anthropology at Cornell University in 2022. I spent multiple NSF-funded years in various parts of Asia conducting research. You can see this influence in the motifs and themes, as well as materials, of my artwork—for example, kokeshi wooden doll paintings and the serpentine, dragon-like Lóng.
My paintings are often representational and narrative. I enjoy telling stories through my artwork. My latest series is surreal, cozy food landscapes inspired by interviews with locals about their heritages.
I’m also a science fiction and fantasy writer and my artwork and writing inform one other. I’m interested in sociological meanings underlying mundane activities—and some of my paintings feature fantastical creatures doing ordinary human things like sharing bread, touring vineyards or visiting waterfalls. Additionally, I teach martial arts. My paintings reflect my interest in movement arts and cultural implements like sticks, swords and hand-braided whips.
I enjoy working with my hands and whimsical functional ceramics are also on display in my studio.
I delight in the flow of acrylic, watercolor, sumi and shuimo ink. They remind me of movement flows in martial arts. I enjoy the meditative quality of directing these mediums—how they glide, circulating across the canvas.
Studio Accessibility
One step up from driveway to path, three steps to studio.