My work is a visual extension of my thoughts. It’s part personal archive, part printmaking evangelism. I’m influenced by my biographical history, my immediate surroundings of rural western New York State, where I work and live, and pondering connections between humankind and the natural world. I use a lot of landscape and wildlife imagery in my work, which illustrate near obsessions with observing and comparing wild and domesticated creatures. I’m also interested in the history of feminism, and ideas surrounding gender as a social construct, particularly in connection to family structure and occupation or vocation.
I work primarily in mixed printmaking media, which in my current studio practice is a mix of traditional media and digital tools. I’m also invested in papermaking and artists books. Because I teach undergraduate students, my work is impacted by the collaboration and discourse that happen in art studio classrooms.
