BIO
Growing up, my Dad worked at Raytheon (1960-90) and brought home outdated equipment that was being thrown out. Even though, I never opened a computer until I joined The Artisan’s Asylum, maker space in Somerville MA in 2012. Since that time I have learned about the abundance of outdated technology and the toll it is taking on the world. We will be better off when manufacturers take responsibility for the lifecycle of their products as they do in some countries. There's an element of chance in my work. I never know what will be gifted to me and each series of computer is different. It’s like a treasure hunt. I love the visual excitement when a shape POPS in relation to color and pattern. I weave in my background and love of Modernism by appropriating imagery from the past. Originally I included old letters, post cards and other personal items sentimental people accumulate. Currently I incorporate altered imagery into compositions built upon contrast, balance, repetition and suggest a connection or equivalence. I grew up going to DeCordova Museum (Lincoln, MA) summer camp where my creativity was always encouraged. At the age of ten I saw the Acropolis in Athens and knew I would be studying Art History when I went to college. Between visiting galleries and museums in NYC while at SUNY Purchase and a year in Paris, I developed my aesthetic sense and became focused on contemporary art.
STATEMENT
I make “hacker art” transforming dismantled computer hardware into sculptural collage that stimulates new ways of seeing and thinking about our relationship to the technology that pervades our lives. As a 3D recycled assemblage artist I’m obsessed with unearthing the internal shapes and materials found inside old technology. My work is a tribute to the human ingenuity that goes into creating these amazing products and a reminder of our dependence and insatiable craving for newer and better. I’m most influenced by my father, who worked as a Raytheon engineer. A child of the depression, my dad was unable to throw out any once valuable object. As a result, our family’s basement was like a museum of the early computer age filled with circuit boards, and cathode ray tubes. My studio is located at the Artisan’s Asylum “maker space” housed in a 40,000 sf former factory. It is a hotbed of innovation and collaborative energy, where a community of engineers, artists and craftspeople share access to the latest design software and fabrication tools. And that is the wonderful irony of my art life today—using cutting edge technology to create art from yesterday’s tech, art that prompts us to think about consuming technology in a more responsible and sustainable manner.
CV
2025
2024
Artisans Asylum show
2023
Normal Now, Artwork by Mass Arts’s Artist Educators
Borrowed Time, Washington St, Somerville
Cabinet of Curiosities, Artisans Asylum, Allston
2022
Inman Incubator, Cambridge, MA
The Byte Shop, Jamaica Plain, MA
Tech Gallery Winter Park, FL
2021
Take me to your Leader, Maynard Art Space
Somerville Open Studios
2020
Cambridge Virtual Open Studios
Steampunk Jewelry Show, Needham
Mass College of Art, Winter Sale
2019
Star Wars" Hub Comics, Union Square Somerville
Artisan's Asylum Group Show Forge Bakery, Somerville
Civic Engagement Recycling Exhibit, Dedham Library
Avatar, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA
2018
”Small Works Show” Dedham Artist Guild
”You Are Here” Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, M
Loan to Work Bar, Cambridge, MA
2017
”Winter Work Show” Bromfield Gallery, Boston”
“Driven to Abstraction” The Umbrella Community Arts Center, Concord, MA
”Pattern” Grace Chapel's Art Gallery, Lexington
”Small Works Show” Groundwork, New Bedford, MA
”Lamplighter Coaster Show” Cambridge
Somerville Open Studios
2016
”Boxed” Nave Gallery
”Inside/Out Gallery” Somerville Arts Council
Cambridge Arts Association
Cambridge OS Lesley Lunder Art Center
Somerville OS Museum Artist Showcase
Somerville Open Studios
“Small Show”Maud Morgan Center, Cambridge
Uni-T, Window Display - Natick Mall
Pop Up at 7 Ate 9 Bakery, Somerville
2015
One-Person Show at Aeronaut Brewery “Eco Recycle Show” Boston City Hall “Eating Tracking Hacking “Sept 18 ”HackCycle”Nave Gallery June, curator
Somerville Open Studios
Blue Cloud Gallery Demo
2014
Yardbirds, Skunk's Microgallery, Artisan's Asylum
Trash Bash, Somerville MA
Into the Mystic Environmental Arts Film Fest, Medford
Somerville Open Studios
Salon 21 Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA
Creative Recycle Lab, University Place
Union Square Maker Fair
Found Art, Zeitgeist, Lowell, MA 2013
Free Library, One Person Show, North Easton MA
2013
Repurposed, ArcWorks Comty Art Cnt, Peabody MA
Artists' Choice, Somerville Museum
Somerville Open Studios
Arisa, Artist Alley & Maker Faire
Peer Reviewed, Nave Annex
Mass Collage of Art Winter Sale
2012
Threads Bared, Nave Gallery
Artisan's Asylum Winter Open Studios
Mini Maker Faire
Yarn Storm in Perry Park
Mass Collage of Art Winter Sale
Little Critters, Nave Gallery
2010
Cambridge Open Studios
2009
Cambridge Open Studios
Winter Salon, Nave Gallery
2008
Somerville Open Studios
Winter Salon, Nave Gallery
2007
Winter Salon, Nave Gallery
Happy Birthday Rrose Selavy! Nave
2006
Union Square Window’s Project
What the Fluff, Union Square Main Streets
Winter Salon, Nave Gallery
2005
Winter Salon, Nave Gallery
1999
Boston First Night Parade
1998
Mobius – “Secretary Show”
Education
Mass College of Art, Masters Arts Education
SUNY Purchase, BA Art History
American College/Parsons School of Design, Paris
Lexington High School
DeCordova Museum School, Lincoln MA
Awards
Asylum Grant
Hacking Nutrition
MIT Hack the Arts, 2020
Loan to Work Bar, 2018