It’s been an amazing year, and I can hardly believe 2025 is already coming to a close. When I look back on the art I made and the choices I made around it, the word that keeps rising to the surface is clarity.
This year brought clarity about what my work wants to say and how it wants to appear in the world. Most of that happened quietly, behind the scenes. I took a risk and stepped back from sales and art fairs so I could focus on grant writing and the bigger picture. That shift gave me space to listen, and the answers that came were worth the pause. My self-directed artist residency in Rome and Pompeii deepened that sense of direction even more. Being surrounded by so much history, decay, and beauty sharpened my understanding of what I’m trying to build and preserve in my own practice.
As I look toward 2026, my hope is that it becomes a year of emergence. A time when all this clarity begins to take form in the physical world. That starts with my upcoming solo exhibition, tender ground, opening March 6, 2026 at Factory Arts District. This show is challenging me in new ways. I'm using my basement as a second studio space to make my largest paintings to date, and I’m constructing more experimental pieces, including a seven-foot-tall sculpture. The work is nudging me to take risks and to experiment in ways that feel both thrilling and terrifying. It doesn’t want to stay on the walls. It wants an environment. It’s pushing me out of my comfort zone, but honestly, even in the doubt, I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.
March 6, 2026. Save the date. I can’t wait to experience alongside you what’s been emerging beneath the surface.
