EDUCATION
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio
BFA in Fine Arts with Teaching Certificate | Major in Painting | Minor in Photography
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work approaches abstraction not as a style, but as a way of seeing. Through the lens, I move beyond documentation and search instead for fragments—light slipping across a surface, the tension within a line, the quiet pulse of color in shadow. I am less concerned with what an object is than with how it feels when reduced to shape, texture, and gesture.
Abstraction allows me to disrupt familiarity. By isolating details, compressing perspective, or dissolving form, I create images where certainty softens and perception becomes active. The camera becomes a tool not for explanation, but for transformation. Ordinary environments—walls, reflections, industrial materials, landscapes—shift into fields of rhythm, movement, and visual resonance.
Ultimately, my photographs are not about subjects; they reveal my personal vision. I hope to engage the viewer to linger long enough to experience color as emotion, line as tension, and space as breath while pausing to see their surroundings in a fresh new way.
EXHIBITIONS
2026 Artruckish, Evanston, IL | Curator: Julie Cowen
2026 The Abstract Image, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN | juror, Gallery Directors
2025 Architecture Interpreted, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN | juror, Ross Anderson
2025 Framed Views Juried Photo Exhibition, Chicago Architecture Center, Chicago, IL
2025 Hintology #3 (included in the publication), Hintology Magazine of Abstract Photography | juror, Vincent Marsolais
2025 31st Juried Members Online Showcase, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA | juror, Ann M. Jastrab
2025 Diptych, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN | juror, Ross Anderson
2025 Inspiration Corporation Fundraiser, Chicago, IL | juried in photograph for fundraising auction
2025 Monochrome, 256 Shades of Gray, WithinSight Gallery, Chicago, IL | juror, Jason Peterson
2025 Chicago’s Desire Paths, WithinSight Gallery, Chicago, IL | Women in Focus Chicago
2024 Abstract, WithinSight Gallery, Chicago, IL | juror, Alan Shapiro
2023 At That Moment, Marshall J. Gardner Center for the Arts, Gary, Indiana | Solo show
2023 Capturing the Light, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont | juror, Ann Jastrab
2022 Travel - Before, During and After the Pandemic, Cafe Selmarie, Chicago, IL
2022 Artists & Friends, Betty’s Pizza & Pasta, Oak Park, IL
2022 The Abstract Image (Group Show), SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC | juror, Adam Finkelston
2022 Abstraction (Group Show), The Art Center Highland Park, Highland Park, IL | juror, Cleveland Dean
2022 Women in the World, Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL | curators ,Susan Aurinko and Susan Blackman
2022 The 2/22/22 Exhibition: Pairs and Diptychs (online), LENS/cratch, | curated by Aline Smithson
2022 The Power of Color, WithinSight Gallery, Chicago, IL | juror, Jane Fulton Alt
2021 Seeing: A Solitary Essential (on-line), Penn Studio School of Art, Philadephia, PA | juror, Joseph Podlesnik
2021 Letters, Numbers & Symbols, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN | juror, Dallas Crow
2021 ArtComp 44, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL | jurors, Elaine Miller, Mathew Owen Wead, Nathan Peck
2021 The Abstract Image, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN | Honorable Mention | juror, Aline Smithson
2020 Color Photography, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR
2020 Purely Abstract, The Fine Line Creative Arts Center, St. Charles, IL
2019 All Politics are Local, Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL | curators, Chris Jackson & Laura Junge
2018 WIF Neighborhood Project, The Hairpin Art Center, Chicago, IL | curator, Charles Osgood
2018 Inspiration Corporation Gala Auction, Venue West, Chicago, IL | curators, Steven Gross & Stan Klein
2018 Kwin’tet, The OuttaSpace, Berwyn, IL
2017 In the ‘Hood, Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL | curators, Chris Jackson & Kaitlyn Miller
2017 November Gallery, FlapJack Brewery, Berwyn, IL | Curator, Joey Izaguirre
2017 Hop Stop, Metro Train Station, Riverside, IL | partnered with Noon Whistle Brewing to create a piece of art
2017 Vicinity, Perspective Gallery, Evanston, IL | juror, Melissa Ann Pinney
2017 12 Photographers, 12 Months, 12 Neighborhoods, Cafe Selmarie, Chicago, IL | Women in Focus
Chicago, curator Richard Cahan
2017 Spring Members Show, Elmhurst Art Guild, Elmhurst, IL
2016 ArtPrize, Grand Rapids Police Department, Grand Rapids, MI
2016 What I See, Kinderhook Tap, Oak Park, IL
2016 Tweet Home LaGrange, Stockholm Objects, LaGrange, IL
2016 11th Annual Juried Photography Show, Morpho Gallery, Chicago, IL | juror, Barbara Diener
2015 Chicago Photography Center, Selmarie Cafe, Chicago, IL
2015 Sights of Evanston, Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL | juror, Debra Hatchett
2015 4-Person Group Photography Show, Morpho Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015 Chicago’s Architexture: From Bricks to Steel, Sofitel Hotel, Chicago, IL
2015 ArtPrize, Craft-Revival Jewelers, Grand Rapids, MI
2015 Off the Grid, Oak Park Art League, Oak Park, IL | juror, Susan Sensemann
2015 10th Annual Juried Photography Show, Morpho Gallery, Chicago, IL | juror, Christopher Schneberger
AWARDED participation on a November 2015 group show
2015 I Am Woman, Chicago Photography Center, Chicago, IL | juror, Susan Aurinko
2014 Women in Focus, Space 1858, Chicago, IL
2014 Recent Photographs, Maze Library, Oak Park, IL | photography workshop in July for grades 6-8
2013 4th Anniversary Exhibition, Water Street Studios, Batavia, IL | juror, Glenn Wexler
AWARDED Honorable Mention
2013 Recent Work, Kinderhook Tap, Oak Park, IL
2012 36th Annual Juried Exhibition, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL | jurors: Larry Lee & Bernard Williams
AWARDED Alice & Arthur Baer Award
2012 Modular 22, Gallery 22, Berwyn, IL
2012 SOLO SHOW Urban Trace, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside , IL | curated by Nancy Hejna
2010 Up Close, Oak Park Conservatory, Oak Park, IL
2002 Digital Photography 3-Person Show, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Chicago Architecture Center Corporate Offices, Chicago, IL
WORKSHOPS
2025 Kalamazoo Institute of Arts | The Perfect Marriage: Paint & Collage with Holly Roberts
2025 Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts | Diary Quilts with Heidi Parkes
2012 LaGrange Art League | Cold-Wax Painting with Diane Martia
2011 LaGrange Art League | Encaustic with Sarah Rehmer
2009 Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts | Free Motion Embroidery with Carol Shinn
2002 Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts | Fabric Dying and Surface Design with Jeanne Brady
MEMBER
Filter Photo Chicago
Griffin Museum of Photography