Solo Exhibition: Fixed Gaze, 2021
Fine Arts Center, Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ
Yellow Wallpaper
Group Exhibition: Knew Normal, 2020
AUTOMAT Gallery, Philadelphia PA
8 ‘ x 8 ‘
8 Ft x 8 Ft 
Installation View: V-v-vista, 12 x 16, 2018
Installation Text:
Do the surfaces and objects that surround our private world block us, release us, or remain ambiguous?
I’m interested in the idea of the interior being a “safe space” that can also- perhaps simultaneously- become a cage. Can the very things that protect us from discomfort become the means to close us off from the world?
Hyper-focus on a fixed space or view can offer a meditation of sorts, but behind this sort of meditation can also lurk dangers.
In her 1892 short story “The Yellow Wallpaper”, feminist author Charlotte Perkins Gilman’’s protagonist is confined to a small room in her home, diagnosed with a “hysterical tendency,” which was likely post-partum depression.
This confinement turns inward, and she images a ghost woman creeping behind the wallpaper that is desperate to be released. The silence and oppression of women’s mental health in the face of a strong patriarchal and capitalist mindset is as much a contemporary issue as a historical one.
Love Me
Location: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Oil on canvas, latex paint, paper, graphite, board
12 ‘ x 12’ room
May-July 2017
Surface Treatment, 9 x 12, 2017
The Heart Wants What It Wants
Location: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
17.5 ft long x 9 ft wide x 8 ft tall
Nov- Dec 2016
Materials: Latex paint, wood, oil on canvas, acrylic paint, ink jet prints on matte paper
The Heart Wants What It Wants makes the room the painted object, and lets the viewer wander this space in a surreal series of associations and actions. The 70s-era linoleum floor pattern sets the stage for a room of shadows- of which the viewers becomes one. Moving through the space, it’s hard to tell what shadows your own body is casting, and which were already there.
Anthropormophic shapes blend into walls with canvases, glitches, and familiar yet-unfamiliar outlines. Two displayed paintings are covered over with a blanket of thick black paint that has dripped onto the floor and formed a stiff pool. Layers pile on like memories, changing from each new angle.
This Is Not An Interior
17.5 ft long x 9 ft wide x 8 ft tall
May 2015
Materials: Latex paint, acrylic paint, oil on canvas
mari elaine lamp 