The nuclear family

The work in this thesis is an exploration of my psychological self, which often alludes to moments of trauma taking place in dreamlike and austere, yet nostalgic environments. The narratives are culled from gray spaces in my memory that reminisce occurrences of my early childhood. The spaces are complicated by a fragmentation of time and space that I associate with the fallibility of recollection. This is mirrored in the work where a fragmentation of the body occurs. I doing so it is my intention to hinder the illusion of the traditional linear narrative and encourage viewers to enter these pictures akin to the experience of dreaming. I exploit the fracturing of the picture evident in the source material, my family photographic album, and draw attention to the repetition of people and objects in these places. The redundancy of them in the work is a reference to the built environment (specifically suburbia). Here, I will explore these ideas in the form of a short story made of paragraph vignettes that are loosely drawn from my autobiography. The stories share similar characteristics to my work in the thesis exhibition, specifically the repetition and fragmentation of subject matter. I will use this text to tie the aesthetic and visual content of the short stories to the work in my thesis exhibition. They have been supplemental to me in my artistic process, helping me to draw upon the subtle spaces of memory and tap into the aesthetics of the vague

Double Singularity

Oil on Linen, 59.5 x 42.5”, 2020. Exhibited in Brooklyn Waterfront Artist\u27s Coalition: Wide Open 11 national juried show, August 15 - September 12, 2020. Juror: Paulina Pobocha, Associate Curator of Paining and Sculpture, MOMA NYC From the artist: Two of my recent paintings, which focus on juxtaposing activities of beach-side leisure to real and imagined existential crises of the contemporary environment, will be on display in the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition\u27s Wide Open 11 juried exhibit. All artworks to be included in the exhibition were selected by Paulina Pobocha, Associate Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the MOMA, NYC. More information on this piece and the artist can be found at the artist\u27s website.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/studiofac/1001/thumbnail.jp

Supernatation Station

Watercolor, 59.5 x 45 , 2018. Exhibited in Brooklyn Waterfront Artist\u27s Coalition: Wide Open 11 national juried show, August 15 - September 12, 2020. Juror: Paulina Pobocha, Associate Curator of Paining and Sculpture, MOMA NYC From the artist: Two of my recent paintings, which focus on juxtaposing activities of beach-side leisure to real and imagined existential crises of the contemporary environment, will be on display in the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition\u27s Wide Open 11 juried exhibit. All artworks to be included in the exhibition were selected by Paulina Pobocha, Associate Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the MOMA, NYC. More information on this piece and the artist can be found at the artist\u27s website.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/studiofac/1000/thumbnail.jp

Through Our Eyes: A Photography Project Made by Refugee Children

Through Our Eyes is an exhibition made up of photographs taken by refugee children who are forced to live in the hotspot of Samos, Greece. It shows us the daily life of refugee people from the inside of the camp. We can see their daily struggles, not like the pictures made by photographers or journalists, but from a different point of view. We can see their daily life through their own eyes. The photos were taken by Mazí students; Mazí is a youth center run by the Still I Rise NGO in Samos.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/libexhibits/1006/thumbnail.jp