I am a multi-media installation artist creating immersive environments that bridge art, architecture, and community. My social practice projects provide a platform for connection, dialogue, and activism.
The elements of my work come together in form and function to orchestrate a theme,using metaphor and immersion to erase boundaries and hierarchies.
Works for exhibition and site-specific interior spaces combine painting, sculpture, drawing, and often elements of light, sound, music, and performance.
For example, I exhibited “The Earth is Dying”, an environmentally themed Installation and performance connecting my body to the earth with weight and breath echoing through a space infused with the smell of burning wax accompanied by an original musical composition. An intimate private audience participated in this meditation performance at Herron-Test Site in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Some of my work is architecturally driven and can be sited outdoors, like the Shell Project, which existed in iterations locally and abroad. In the communities of North Brooklyn, the project was part of a neighborhood festival that hosted dialogue and presented solutions to revitalize, regenerate, and repair an environmentally challenged area. Abroad, the Shell Project acted as cultural ambassador, fostering new initiatives and relationships between two cities on the border of Germany and Austria.
More than 10 years ago I founded the Greenpoint Film Festival (GFF) as a community driven project to advocate for connectivity and inclusion, consciousness and mindfulness, social justice, and environmental sustainability. Daylong programs and panels featured local groups, businesses, and representatives, spotlighting voices of advocacy and possible solutions for improvement. Today, under community management, the annual festival continues to present a wide range of programming including works by members of the hearing impaired and media documentation by local residents on remediation and sustainability efforts, along with independent works.
Although there’s much left to be done, these social practice projects addressed topics that facilitated active resolution to upgrade quality of life and the environment in the community.