I specialize in painted, deconstructed portraits and abstract mixed-media pieces. My preferred medium is oil paint. I am, however, classically trained in various one- and two-dimensional artistic disciplines. I am committed to expanding my skills through new techniques and mediums.
ArtSteps is a virtual exhibition platform that enables users to create immersive virtual art exhibitions. The pandemic increased societal interest in accessible art experiences. In spring 2021, I curated the Lowe Art Museum's first virtual art exhibition, "The Distance Between You and Me is Us."
This collaborative project is a collection of photographs from different periods that explore "social distance" as a cultural and artistic concept. The virtual exhibition also addresses racial injustice and climate change.
"Absence and Presence" is a print initiative of the "Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here" project founded by Beau Beausoleil in response to the 2007 car bombing of Baghdad's historic Al-Mutanabbi Street. Al-Mutanabbi Street has been the center of Baghdad's literary and intellectual community for centuries. I created "Freedom" for submission in the spring of 2014 while at Walnut Hill School for the Arts under the direction of Stephanie Stigliano.
The shredded pages beneath the print symbolize the destructive flames and subsequent ashes of lost book pages. The hands reaching toward the carved word "Freedom" in Arabic signify the determination to increase and preserve knowledge accessibility. I aspire to a world where knowledge is accessible to all.
The piece has since been on the cover of the Summer 2023 CCAS Newsmagazine, a bi-annual publication of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. As of 2023, the piece is physically a part of the archive collection at Columbia University and digitally at Indiana University.