A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ME
The most important fragments of our lives are the memories we have and the ones we have yet to make. Though I paint humble objects, I hope my work reminds you of forgotten moments and the people you share them with.
I am an acrylic artist who has been drawing and painting my whole life, telling my mom when I was just five years old that I was going to be an artist when I grew up. I wanted to make what I thought was a stable career out of my love for art by pursuing illustration. After earning a BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design, however, I realized that painting was my true passion. I settled in the suburbs of Pittsburgh where I was born and raised and began to paint images of the places and objects that have impacted me the most. I focus on dramatic, yet simple still life paintings of foods and objects. Painting is my way of processing the world around me. I paint to preserve memories and the beauty found in simplicity, and to reflect on the biggest ideas and feelings that take up space in my heart.
Artist CV
EDUCATION
Savannah College of Art and Design - BFA in Illustration - 2010
EXHIBITION HISTORY
2020 Richeson75 International Still Life & Floral Online Exhibition
Group Online Show - “A Safe Place to Land”, “Grapes and Mandarin Slices”
2020 IGOR Spring Salon Online Exhibition
Group Online Show - “A Safe Place to Land”
2019 National Oil and Acrylic Painters’ society fall online exhibition
Group Online Show - “A Safe Place to Land”
2019 International Guild of Realism winter salon online exhibition
Group Online Show - “Ain’t Lunch Grand”
2019 CLASH
Duo Show - Christine Fréchard Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2018 International guild of realism 13th annual exhibition
Group Show - Sugarman-Peterson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2018 "Spring Bound III"
Group Show - Sewickley, PA
2018 "A Taste of art"
Solo Show - Backstage Bar - Pittsburgh, PA
2018 "Savoring Realism"
Solo Show - Gilberti Fine Art - Coraopolis, PA
2017 "Spring Bound II"
Group Show - Sewickley, PA
2016 "Spring Bound I"
Group Show - Sewickley, PA
2015 "Pittsburgh Society of Artists 50th Annual Exhibition"
Group Show - Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
2015 "Reflections"
Solo Show - Pulse Gallery - Pittsburgh, PA
PUBLICATIONS
2018 - Acrylicworks5 Bold Values, “Baseball and Peanuts”
2016 - Finalist in the Artists Magazine Annual Art Competition, "The Pitts-burger"
AWARDS
2019 - “Outstanding Acrylic” - BoldBrush Painting Competition December
2019 - Artists Magazine Annual Art Competition - Still Life Finalist
2019 - 14th Annual Art Renewal Center Salon Exhibition Finalist
2018 - Juror's Choice Award - Three Rivers Art Festival
2018 - Award of Excellence - Blowing Rock Art in the Park May Show
2017 - Best of Show- A Fair in the Park
2017 - Best of 2D-Mt. Lebanon Artists' Market
2017 - 1st place 2D- Art by the Falls
2017 - Festival Award- Three Rivers Art Festival
ORGANIZATIONS
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh
International Guild of Realism
Pittsburgh Society of Artists