My work begins with the understanding that creativity is not separate from living—it is a way we remember, reflect, and connect.

Raised in New York City within a family shaped by immigrant roots, I learned early that creativity was essential to daily life, curiosity, and well-being. That foundation continues to guide my practice.

Through abstraction and intuitive mark-making, my paintings explore memory, lived experience, and the evolving nature of identity. Working primarily with gouache, acrylic, metallic pigments, oil and gold leaf, I build layered surfaces that hold traces of process, allowing light and movement to activate the work as an experience rather than a fixed image.

My practice is grounded in a sense of connection—between past and present, inner reflection and shared human experience. Each painting becomes a quiet threshold, inviting viewers to pause, recognize, and enter their own associations.

As both artist and lifelong educator, I approach the studio as a place of inquiry, continually asking how experience shapes perception and how creative expression allows us to return, again and again, to deeper understanding.