Artist Statement / Resume
I make art to create pockets in the universe. Corners of ideas that run parallel to life but offer peaceful escapes into whimsical worlds. For me art offers another dimension to slip into, a creative and fanciful space to have true mental freedom. Art allows me, a professional daydreamer, to create backdrops and vignettes for stories I hope others create. I like to believe that my artwork starts an idea in someone else's mind. Creatives depend on each other and I hope whatever I make plants an idea in the mind of another. A coffee monster, a fish flower, a mushroom painter - I love to scratch my brain for the feeling of peaceful creation.
At the end of the day it is the night and the world is only as beautiful as you have made it.
Education
May 2021 - University of New Mexico – Art Studio Bachelors
May 2021 – University of New Mexico – Art History
Work Experience
January 2023 - Temporary research assistant Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
August 2022 - Current - Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
July 2021 - August 2022 - Tacoma Art Museum
July 2021 - October 2021 - Olympia Children's Museum
August 2020 – March 2021 – Painting and Drawing Studio Monitor UNM Art Department
October 2017 – March 2021 – UNM Art Museum Assistant
Exhibitions
2023 - Roots Coffee Shop
2021 - Guardian Monsters - Browsers Bookshop
2021 -The After Death - Lamplighters Gallery
2021 - First Contact - Mothership Alumni Gallery
2021 - New Horizons - Senior Capstone Exhibitions UNM
2021 - A Thinking Space - Albuquerque Open Space - Thesis Show
2020 – Sappho Display – UNM Art Building
2019 – Peaceful Mornings Display – UNM Art Building
2018 – Self Portrait Display – UNM Art Building
2018 - UNM Fine Art Library – Make-A-Wish Collaboration
Academic Achievement
2022-2023 Research Grant on Equity in Museums, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
2021- Summa Cum Laude, UNM
2021 - Designation in Honors, UNM
2020-2021 Gale Art Scholarship, UNM
2020-2021 Nathanial Moore Fine Arts Scholarship, UNM
2018-2020- UNM Deans List, UNM