Vulnerability is an unwanted consequence of my work. The onset is purely a kind of compulsive curiosity. I often don’t realize the risk I am taking until it’s too late. Incorporating candid narratives and revisiting childhood, I am reconstructing memory, and piecing together my identity through a reenactment of the past.

Cutting each piece of paper with the same hand tools I used growing up in garment manufacturing industry is and was a methodical activity to distract my mind. My expression has really become a form of denial. I see art as an argument for reality, and sometimes it is a document, or evidence of having tried to find resolution.

AWARDS AND HONORS

2008 Print Residency, Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Artists' Resource for Completion Grant, The Durfee Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
2005 Artists' Resource for Completion Grant, The Durfee Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Residency Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2003 Foundation Grant, Artists' Fellowship Inc., New York, NY

SOLO EXHIBITS

2008
She Dreamed She Remembered, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Above the Bias Forces, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN

2007
Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX
All Done But None, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
A Girl Apart, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA

2006
My Identity Lab, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

2005
George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Highways Performance Space and Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2004
Distance ÷ 3, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2003
Highways Performance Space and Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2007
Dark Objects, Light Matter, Galleri Urbane, Marfa, TX
Material Girls, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2006
Perspectives, LA Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SURVIVING: Kinkade, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Self-taught Artists, LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA (Catalog)
Zimmer Children's Museum, Los Angeles, CA (Catalog)
Configuration, Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ

2005
George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
BGH Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
Ontario International Airport, Ontario, CA

2004
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Outsiders, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Highways Gallery and Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA

2003
Gallery 825 at Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
LA Women Artists, Bedlam Art, Los Angeles, CA
Now and Now Again, The Wedge at the Womens Building, LA, CA
Brush, The Office: An Art Space, Huntington Beach, CA

2002
Held Ransom, three. Gallery, San Pedro, CA
words., Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
Dougherty Art Center, Austin, TX

2001
Bush Barn Art Center, Salem Arts Association, Salem, OR
La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2000
Westside Art Gallery, Venice, CA

1999
Early Days of LA Punk, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1998
Orlando Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA
New Alchemy Gallery, West Hollywood, CA


SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Centre Pompidou, Bibliotheque Kandinsky, Paris, France
J. Paul Getty Trust, Research Institute Library, Los Angeles, CA
Fred Giampietro Art, New Haven, CT
The Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Beverly Kaye, Art Brut Collection, Woodbridge, CT
Paul Kirkpatrick Music, London, UK
Juliette Lewis, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Jack Morton Company, Atlanta & NY
Memory Bridge, Chicago, IL
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Otis College of Art & Design, Artists' Books Collection, Los Angeles, CA
The Ann Savage Collection, Los Angeles, CA
UCLA Library, Special Collections, Los Angeles, CA
Zetter Collection, Carlsbad, CA
Gail Zone, Los Angeles, CA