art Exhibitions and projects

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Seeing Beauty: Havana Glen

This seven-minute film emerged from repeated visits to Havana Glen between 2021 and 2025, combining on-site filming, sketching, and voiceover. Moving from sensory overwhelm toward focused attention, the work frames seeing as a contemplative practice shaped by slowing, uncertainty, and sustained presence. Art direction and concept by the artist, with additional filming and editing in collaboration.

An Artist Explores Consciousness

An Artist Explores Consciousness represents an early phase of inquiry in which questions of identity, perception, and interconnectedness were explored through painting, sculpture, and text. Rather than presenting conclusions, the work functioned as an open investigation into how awareness shifts between habitual and reflective states. This project established conceptual ground that continues to inform later work focused on attention, embodiment, and relational experience.

Between Fear and Freedom

Between Fear and Freedom worked with participants across age, ability, and social position—including autistic individuals navigating independent living, a veteran, and corporate leaders. Each portrait was shaped collaboratively, often depicting the subject confronting deeply personal fears. Vulnerability, imagination, and symbolism coexisted, allowing participants to be seen intimately.

Portraits of Southern Tier

Portraits of the Southern Tier was a foundational project centered on slowing perception and examining how identity is constructed through first impressions. Through extended sittings and sustained eye contact, the work invited both artist and viewer to move beyond quick judgment toward recognition. This project laid the groundwork for later participatory and contemplative works that continue to explore attention, empathy, and relational presence.

Eclosion: Coming out of COVID

Coming Out of COVID was installed in the Corning Civic Center as part of a larger public installation following pandemic-related closures. The civic setting positioned the work within everyday public life rather than a gallery context, allowing themes of emergence, inclusion, and renewal to unfold through shared spatial experience and collective presence.

Ode to Chemung

Ode to Chemung transformed a bridge over the Chemung River into a large street mural, inviting viewers to experience the river as a living, nurturing presence, fostering dialogue about care for place and environmental awareness.