About the Artist:
Her work reconnects us with the physical elements of the stage and costume, creating a unique and captivating experience for the viewer. She is an artist who captures movement through the use of non-traditional painting materials such as wood stains and fabric dyes.
-Synkroniciti Magazine 2020
Statement:
My work explores the physical and emotional traces created through movement, experience, and transformation. I approach painting as a record of the body—a surface where gestures, revisions, stains, and layers accumulate over time. Using brushes, hands, feet, fabric, pigment, and other materials, I create marks that preserve evidence of both intentional and spontaneous action.
I am interested in the tension between control and surrender. Layers are added, altered, obscured, and revealed, allowing earlier gestures to remain present even when they are partially concealed. The resulting surfaces become visual histories of change, reflecting the way lived experiences accumulate rather than disappear.
My practice extends beyond traditional painting through performance and collaboration with music, dance, fashion, and other creative disciplines. These intersections allow the act of making to become part of the artwork itself, emphasizing the relationship between the body, material, environment, and audience.
Ultimately, my work considers what remains after transformation—the marks, memories, and traces that continue to shape us. Through painting and interdisciplinary practice, I invite viewers to experience the artwork as both object and evidence of movement, emotion, and becoming.
Biographical Context
I was born and raised in the Texas Hill Country,where my love for art and ballet
began at a very early age. Both were a very big part of my life as I focused on ballet
and various art competitions throughout highschool. At fifteen, I performed in The
Nutcracker with the Colorado Ballet and the St. Petersburg Russian Ballet. This
experience would inspire my later work as I decided to attend Texas Tech Unversity
to pursue a degree in Painting. In 2008, I moved to Lubbock, Texas, to pursue a BFA
(2012) and an MFA (2015) in Studio Art at Texas Tech University. During my MFA
education I would fall in love with abstraction and combine my love for performance,
ballet and painting into my studio practice. After finsihing the MFA I would call
Lubbock my home and spent the last 10 years in higher education teaching studio
courses at Texas Tech University, Lubbock Christian University and South Plains
College. I would also commit to sharing my studio practice with the public by being
involved as an artist in residence at Charles Adams Studio Project from 2017-2024
collaborating with dancers, singers, and other artists bridging the gap between
performance and art making. I am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Drawing & Design at Texas Tech Univeristy,
calling West Texas my home, and living in the country with my husband Scott, and son Luke.
Work:
2026-2027- Visiting Assitant Professor of Practice in Foundations, Texas Tech University
2026- Adjunct Faculty of Drawing, Texas Tech University
2025- Levelland High School, Art Teacher 9th-12th grade
2024- 2025 Adjunct Faculty of Drawing, Texas Tech University
2017-2024 Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, South Plains College- Levelland TX
Fine Arts Gallery Director, South Plains College- Levelland TX
2016-2017 Adjunct Instructor of Drawing & Design, Lubbock Christian University
2015-2016 Adjunct Instructor of Drawing, Texas Tech University
2012-2015 GPTI Drawing & Painting, Texas Tech University
Education:
MFA-Painting, Texas Tech University- Lubbock, TX 2015
BFA- Studio Art, Texas Tech University- Lubbock, TX 2012
Publications:
2026 Monochromica the Pink Issue
2025Novum Artis Issue 007
2020 Synkroniciti, Vol. 2, No. 4 "Hidden"
2019 & 2017 American Artwork Edition 14 & 15
2016 Studio Visit Magazine Vol. 34
LBKHAUS Gallery & Performance Venue 2024-2025
Solo Exhibitions:
2026 Intoxicate, 5 & J Gallery, CASP Lubbock, TX
2025 Body, Action, Space, Time, Energy, Charles Adams Gallery, Lubbock, TX
2023. Imbalanced Parallels, Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene, TX
2020. Choreographic Sequences, LHUCA, Lubbock, TX
2019 physical articulation, Lubbock Christian University, Lubbock, TX
2018 sequential gestures, Christine Dewitt Art Gallery SPC, Levelland, TX
2017 restraint, Clamplight Gallery & Studio, San Antonio, TX
2016 concealed/fragmented/redefined, Garden & Arts Center, Lubbock, TX
2015 ballerina: standard of beauty, Texas Tech University’s School of Art Satellite Gallery, Lubbock, TX
2015 the mark, Peachtree Gallery, Lubbock, TX
2015 the choreography of painting, CASP 5 & J Gallery, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Lubbock, TX
Performances/Collaborations:
2025 Dance Tech collaboration with TTU Theatre & Dance department (visual elements/scenic design)
2024 "Lubbock Lights" collaboration with Flatlands Dance Theatre (installation)
2024, Light overcomes Darkness, Lubbock Christian University
2024, hours, artist in residence, Northern Florida University
2023, hours, artist in residence, Kansas City Music Hall/ Pembroke School of the Arts
2022 hours, artist in residence, Ole' Miss University
2022 hours, a collaborative performance with composer Cecil Price Walden & Vocal Professor Alice Anne Light, Hemmle Recital Hall, Texas Tech University
2012 DECA Dance, Firehouse Theatre LHUCA, Lubbock TX Flatlands Dance Theatre Collaboration
2018 “The Happening” SPC Theatre/Live Painting Collaborative Performance, SPC Theatre
Group Exhibitions:
2025 Art Educator Showcase, The Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene TX
2025 TTU School of Art Group Faculty Exhibition, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
2024 Regional Art Faculty Exhibition, WTAM Gallery, Canyon TX
2024 Members Group Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene, TX
2022 There's no "I" in Cactus, Texas Tech University Museum, Lubbock TX
2022 CCAN Juried Exhibition
Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene TX
2021: Motherly: an intersection of motherhood and the creative practice, Texas Tech University School of Art Satelite Gallery, Lubbock TX
2021 All Abstract, 311 Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina
2021 Women in Art, Reflections: Nuu Muse Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2020 CCAN Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene, Texas
2020 Abstract Only! 10th Anniversary Exhibition at Wailoa Center in Hilo, Hawaii
Collaborative Performance, Lubbock, TX
2019 CLIP: An International Exhibition of Works on Paper, 5 & J Gallery, Lubbock, TX
2019 Artspace111: 6thAnnual Regional Juried Exhibition, Artspace Gallery, Dallas, TX
2019 Collectors Choice 2019, Studio Channel Islands Gallery, Camarillo, CA
2018 Texas & Neighbors, Irving Art Center, Dallas TX
2018 resonate & render, LHUCA Gallery Firehouse Theatre, Lubbock, TX
2017 document, Lubbock Christian University, Lubbock, TX
2016 passage, Texas Tech School of Art Satellite Gallery, Lubbock, TX
2016 lines & light “an evening of performance & visual arts”, LHUCA Gallery Firehouse Theatre, Lubbock, TX
2015 your move: dance photography, Art House Productions Gallery, New Jersey, NJ
2015 abstracts, ArtSpace Gallery, Round Rock, TX
2015 ink this: curation of prints, Texas Tech University South Gallery, Lubbock, TX