Hello! I’m a visual artist working primarily in video; a musician, songwriter, and vocalist; an educator; and founder/director of Three Walls Gallery in San Antonio, Texas, which in recent years has become a roving space that mounts special projects such as an artist/curator exchange project and exhibition with artist-run space Centro Cultural Border in Mexico City. I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve released my debut album titled Von Economo, which is my musical alias and was three years in the making.

In 2023, I was awarded an artist residency at Venezia Contemporanea in Venice, Italy to start a new body of work titled Six Is The Loneliest Number that explores the sixth great extinction event and environmental issues we are experiencing globally, and I mounted a solo exhibition in Venice at La Storta Gallery. My large-scale photographic work is currently on public display on the facade of the Kress building in downtown San Antonio as part of Art In The Public Realm, a long-term program for public art spearheaded by Centro San Antonio and COSA (City of San Antonio). In recent years my work was exhibited at the CICA Museum in Seoul, South Korea, the 59th Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Superchief Gallery NFT as part of the Every Woman Biennial in New York City, and in New Texas Talent at Craighead Green Gallery in Dallas, Texas. I also exhibited at the Venice International Art Fair in Venice, Italy and Luis Leu Gallery in Karlsruhe, Germany along with being selected for a summer residency at the Totaldobre Residency, Tallinas ielas Kvartals in Riga, Latvia. I was a finalist for the Tobin Prize, granted by the Artist Foundation of San Antonio, and I received an artist residency through the Latvian Center for Contemporary Art in Cesis, Latvia where I work-shopped collaborative artworks/actions with artists, semioticians, linguists, and musicians from all over the world, which was a life-changing experience! I was also awarded the Idea Fund Grant, a re-granting program of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Selected exhibitions include: My Love Is Your Love, Every Woman Biennial, Superchief Gallery NFT, New York, NY; Over the Structures, CICA Museum, Seoul, South Korea; In The Screen, 59th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI; Fragmented Identities, The Room, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice International Art Fair, Venice, Italy; Debtfair: Occupy Museums at the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY;  American Splendour, Ilon Gallery, NY, NY;  Arising Project/Yoko Ono, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland (participant/exhibitor); Common Currents, San Antonio Tricentennial Celebration Exhibition, Artpace, San Antonio, TX; CASPFest, Charles Adams Studio Project, Lubbock, TX; Vignette Art Fair, Women’s Museum, Dallas, TX; Nature, Nurture, Torture, Sala Jesús Gallardo, Instituto de Cultura de León, León, Mexico; Numinous Inscriptions, MauMau Gallery, during the annual city-wide video festival “Loop” in Barcelona, Spain; Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Fotofest International & Houston Center For Photography Booth, Houston, TX;  ArtSpace, at the CAA Conference in New York City; swingsong (purplerain) at the McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio; Gone Again II at Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX; Communion of Saints, David Shelton Gallery, Houston, TX.

Artist Statement

My current work falls into two explorations: the first is a video series of extremely shorts; the second is a body of work in video and photography that focuses on imagistic, cinematic external and internal landscapes.

The extremely shorts video series is titled Darling, Work and I initiated it in late 2019 on Instagram. It continues to the present. The series is performative and is meant to work in the sphere of social media, online viewing, and in the context of exhibition. Since the outbreak of Covid19, I’ve utilized Instagram as an exhibition space to communicate directly in real time with my audience. Each video adopts a character who makes short sharp statements very quickly. This series comments on social issues, tech, relationships, gender equity, deconstruction/reconstruction of identity, fragmentation, and the worldwide insanity we're all experiencing. It attempts to deal with grief, incredulousness, disbelief, frustration and anxiety and finds a solution by embracing humor as a social sanction against inflexibility. Each video is a short vignette that utilizes the face of the artist—always altered in order to deconstruct identity, make the person in the video irrelevant, and the character she is portraying relevant—subverting the selfie and attempting to subvert facial recognition.

My other ongoing body of work seeks out discrepancies between individual experience of the landscape and corporate abuse of the environment. Using the motif of flora and fauna, the endangered beauty of the landscape combines with the anthropologic. The work, primarily video and photography, layers different aspects of the landscape and presents the human figure within the motif as a vessel—a conduit for and casualty of the sublime. The landscape as monument—sometimes tranquil, off-balance, beautiful or ominous, and the frequently destabilized horizon in the video works invite the audience to reconsider preconceived notions of their place within the systems of the planet. Bi-lateral symmetry in the images is used in reference to the divine: there is an under-girding order and bilateral symmetry present in the seven days of creation, and this order and bilateral symmetry is tied to a key exegetical principle which under-girds practically all of biblical prophecy. This work is not specifically religious, but its form references theological interpretations of symmetry in the environment. Camera movement in the videos evokes a sense of balance/unbalance. Many layers of audio incorporate original compositions, voice, instrumentation, feedback and ambient sound.