I interpose objects of the everyday to distort our sense of space, explore our ability to inhabit rooms, and merge the dreamlike with the rigid. I think of paintings as they exist in the home, decorating our lives, using us to give them purpose. And inversely, objects become paintings to question abstraction and reality. My work focuses on the acute and the polite, the domestic and the utilitarian.

Overarching themes in my studio practice include issues of desire, consumption, and the absurdity of convenience. This takes form in immersive installations filled with both soft and hard wall pieces. Within the installations I abstract everyday objects utilizing materiality and hyper-cohesive color so that they may hover in a space of nostalgia and dystopia. My work combines imagination and points of memory to unpack the history of modernism and minimalism in the middle-class home.

This question of domesticity comes from a curiosity of the curated home space; how the imperfections of home life can be contrasted with the polish of interior design. I am interested in how domestic aesthetics has been linked to material sensibility and social trends. My research is tied heavily to suburban expansion and the merger of creativity with fabrication, as well as how the development of these aesthetics impacted immigration assimilation and consumer culture. This work aims to further understand domestic design and its relationship to color theory.

Homes are meant to be a sanctuary, and yet we fill them with the latest trend. But that latest trend is beautiful and we want it in our lives. So let’s live with it. Let’s look at it and use it.