Entwined
Solo exhibition of paintings at Gallery NAGA Boston
My work explores ideas of nature and culture: how language, art history, philosophy, and science define and shape our understanding of the world. I articulate these ideas into paintings that offer a loving critique of our ways embedded within a vision of harmony.
Since 2014, I’ve been working with hand-marbled paint on canvas, using its fluid, unpredictable patterns to echo forms found in nature like leaves and branches, currents and geological lines. These patterns form the foundation of my compositions, linking human figures and landscapes in a shared visual language.
During a recent residency in Vienna I spent time studying Gustav Klimt’s paintings. His group compositions, especially The Bride, Death and Life, and The Maiden called to me. I saw in them the joy and anguish of being alive; of loving, dying, and changing. The figures twist and fold like windblown petals or eddies in water, movements not unlike those in my marbled surfaces. I allowed Klimt’s influence to mingle with other inspirations: Brazilian textiles, ornate jewelry, and natural forms embedding ideas of cultural hybridity and the decorative as political.
Underlying all is a belief I hold close: that nature and humanity are not separate. I draw from the wisdom of ecofeminism, which recognizes the parallels between how we treat the Earth and how we treat one another. In every brushstroke and form, I try to reflect a world that honors care over control, harmony over hierarchy. Ecofeminism reminds me that all life is sacred, that we are part of a cycle of birth, growth, death, and renewal.
In my paintings, the human figure is incorporated into living ecologies rather than isolated from it. They reimagine our relationship with nature not as something to control or idealize but as a dynamic, interwoven force central to our histories, identities, and shared future.
