Alizarin Bones and Diaphonized Dreams 1-30 (2025)

30x30x30 exhibition at Var Gallery in Milwaukee, WI

My work explores public health, illness, and the experience of being a human with a body. Meditating on body horror through art practice allows me to hold together the tragedy of mortality and an optimism towards a future culture of care.

Alizarin Bones and Diaphonized Dreams is a series of improvisational paintings which reflect the tension between beauty and horror by painting human anatomy in fleshy abstraction. Each painting is layered and glazed acrylic paint on yupo paper, mounted on cradled wood panels.

I sought to capture the translucence of diaphonization, which is the process of preserving small, fragile remains using alizarin dye.

This work is both an obsessive rumination and an embrace of the brutality, preciousness, and fragility of our bodies. I invite you to contemplate the colorful memento mori in this cabinet of curious anatomies, and to confront the promise of death to find inspiration for life.

Drawings and Paintings (2020 – 2024)