Illustrations
April 2009

The bird illustrations on my site were completed in the summer of 2008 for Olivia Gentile’s 2009 book, Life List: A Woman's Quest For the World's Most Amazing Birds.

“Except for one thing, this book would rate as a great adventure novel and fictional psychological portrait, about a woman’s obsession with bird-watching, its effect on her relationships with her husband and her four children, and the horrifying mishaps that she survived on each continent—until the last mishap. But the book isn’t that great novel, because instead it’s a great true story: the biography of Phoebe Snetsinger, who set the world record for bird species seen, after growing up in an era when American women weren’t supposed to be competitive or have careers. Whether or not you pretend that it’s a novel, you’ll enjoy this powerful, moving story.” - Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the bestselling Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse

Pencil Factory Drawings
April 2008

Pencil Factory Drawings are a recent series of graphite drawings on paper. They are based on buildings in and around Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Some are half-built new condominiums, some are the ghostly relics of an industrial past. My process of placing fields of layered graphite lines against stark architectural silhouettes creates a tension between the looming mass of negative white space and the distinctly hand-drawn texture, conjuring a landscape that feels like a steely ghost town afloat in the grainy exteriors of film noir. The series creates a narrative in which the architecture of our past and present dissolve from us and towards us simultaneously.


Wallflowers
April 2007

Continuing on the theme of domestic interior patterns, this recent site-specific installation for the exhibit From the Inside Out: Feminist Art Then and Now consists of wallpaper that has been meticulously cut out from its background and applied on the wall on its reverse side.  The white-on-white pattern on the wall approaches something between a drawing and a sculpture, the shadows of the curling flowers creating lines on the wall, as well as the colors from the wallpaper images faintly reflecting back on the white wall.  The result is a creeping decoration that is drained of its context, leaving a beautiful but haunting pattern.


Artist Statement
June 2006

My latest body of work has moved from decorative and domestic spaces out into the world of industrial urban architecture, in the form of ink drawings. In New York City, and specifically in Brooklyn where I live and work, I find myself constantly looking at lines through space – electrical wires, antennae, wire fences, bridges – and the act of seeing seems to be mediated by the perpetual development and building up of one’s vision.