I grew up in Arlington. As an undergraduate at Yale, I studied both painting and art history. In art history, I concentrated on twentieth century American painting, and wrote my senior essay on the influence of the Icelandic landscape on the still lifes of Louisa Mattiasdottir. I earned a BA in art history with distinction. In painting, I was a two-time recipient of the Yale College Sudler Award for the Arts, a cash award allowing an undergraduate to put on a solo exhibition. Thus, I had two solo exhibitions of oil paintings, one in my junior year, and the other in my senior year at Yale.

After college, I worked in the Art History department of Boston University as the Assistant Director of the Slide Library. At this time, I painted at home at night and on weekends, and had two small exhibitions of my work, both in July of 2002. The next studio of my own for the first time, the scale of my work, as well as the pace, increased dramatically. I was accepted in Boston University’s graduate painting program, under the direction of John Walker, where I enrolled the following year. In the fall of my first year of graduate school, I was selected by the Dean of Faculty to have a solo exhibition of work in Suite 109 at Boston University. In the spring, I was awarded the Dean’s Scholar Award, a full tuition scholarship for the second year of graduate school awarded to a Fine Arts student for “most outstanding talent.” Currently, I have a solo exhibition of paintings, “Habits and Daily Rituals,” opening in four weeks, in the Commonwealth Gallery at Boston University, and I am working on my thesis show, which opens on April 15. In May I will be participating in the West Medford Open Studios, and after May, I will be painting full-time in my studio in Medford, Massachusetts.

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