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DESCRIPTION
Collaged Lithographs
8.5 x 11 in
2025
My art practice explores the psychological landscape of motherhood and caregiving, with an emphasis on unseen and undervalued labor. In my most recent body of work, I pull imagery from historical tintypes and family photographs of mothers and children. My process involves hidden and laborious translations from one medium to the next: multiple iterations weaving back and forth between analog and digital. Beginning with high-resolution scans of photographs, I uncover unnoticed scratches, dust, damage, and signs of wear. Zooming in and isolating certain sections, I render them as photorealistic graphite drawings on vellum. After scanning the drawings, I re-present the images in forms such as collaged prints, inked fabric, video projections, and artists’ books. Through this work, I honor and give presence to mothers and caregivers whose daily labor is too often ignored or overlooked.
BIO
Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, I teach and create art just outside Washington, D.C. I earned a bachelor’s degree with dual majors in Painting and Art History from the University of Virginia in 1996. After a brief career as a web designer for The Washington Post, I earned a master’s degree in Education from The George Washington University in 2001 and a master’s degree in Fine Art from George Mason University in 2021. For the past 24 years, I have been an art educator at the high school level in Fairfax, Virginia. I currently teach Painting, Drawing, and Digital Photography at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.
DESCRIPTION
Collaged Lithographs
8.5 x 11 in
2025
My art practice explores the psychological landscape of motherhood and caregiving, with an emphasis on unseen and undervalued labor. In my most recent body of work, I pull imagery from historical tintypes and family photographs of mothers and children. My process involves hidden and laborious translations from one medium to the next: multiple iterations weaving back and forth between analog and digital. Beginning with high-resolution scans of photographs, I uncover unnoticed scratches, dust, damage, and signs of wear. Zooming in and isolating certain sections, I render them as photorealistic graphite drawings on vellum. After scanning the drawings, I re-present the images in forms such as collaged prints, inked fabric, video projections, and artists’ books. Through this work, I honor and give presence to mothers and caregivers whose daily labor is too often ignored or overlooked.
BIO
Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, I teach and create art just outside Washington, D.C. I earned a bachelor’s degree with dual majors in Painting and Art History from the University of Virginia in 1996. After a brief career as a web designer for The Washington Post, I earned a master’s degree in Education from The George Washington University in 2001 and a master’s degree in Fine Art from George Mason University in 2021. For the past 24 years, I have been an art educator at the high school level in Fairfax, Virginia. I currently teach Painting, Drawing, and Digital Photography at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.