Lady Painter
MFA in Painting, Tyler School of Art and Architecture
In my work I ask how cooking and food preparation can act as a space of self-definition and connection. Cooking occupies a special role in the domestic spaces I grew up in and I think about how it can be used to recapture the culture and language that my mother’s family lost when trying to assimilate into suburban California. Through cooking I learn to understand my heritage, family and American culture while being alone, without the inherent conflict of relationships and family. Through ingredients used in traditional Puerto Rican cooking, recipes that have been alive and changing in my family for generations, and my mom’s meatball recipe she got from Pinterest, I approach heritage, food culture and history from a fraught perspective. Through the processes of cooking and learning recipes passed down through a matriarchal lineage I explore how to recontextualize my thought process, adding nuance to my understanding of history and self.
EDUCATION
2020 MFA Drawing and Painting, Tyler School of Art at Temple University Philadelphia, PA
2018 The New York Studio School - Color Marathon New York, NY
2011 BA Fine Arts and History (Honors) UC Davis Davis, CA
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2020 Sunday Dinner, Temple Contemporary Philadelphia, PA
2019 Viewed by Another Species, Information Space Philadelphia, PA (Two person show with Austen Camille)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Everything Must Go, FAS Atelier Gallery Philadelphia, PA
2020 2020 Tyler MFA Painting, Massey Klein Gallery New York City NY
2020 Certain Ground curated by Tausif Noor Online Exhibition https://www.certainground.com/
2020 Objectional Bodies curated by Ana Mosquera, Pop up Show Philadelphia, PA
2020 Distant Sounds: Collective Participatory Sound Artwork curated by William Felinski, Olio Projects Philadelphia, PA
2020 The InLiquid Benefit: Everyone is a Collector, The Icebox Projects Philadelphia, PA
2019 Bed Talks XI presented by GRAFT Collective, Vox Populi Philadelphia, PA (performance)
2018 2018 National Prize Show juried by Michelle Grabner, Jessica Hong and Jamillah James, Kathryn Schultz Gallery Cambridge, MA
2018 Can’t You See How Hard I’m Working curated by Solei, Dorchester Art Project Boston, MA
2018 Sanctuary juried by Maria Molteni, Gallery 263 Somerville, MA
2018 2018 Members Prize Show juried by Joseph Carroll, University Place Gallery Cambridge, MA
2017 Summer Exhibition Emerging Artists Kathryn Schultz Gallery Cambridge, MA
2017 60th Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art curated by Don Kimes, Lois Jubeck and Susan and Jack Turben, Fowler-Kellogg Art Center Chautauqua, NY
2016 An Interdisciplinary Night at Gallery 263, Gallery 263 Somerville, MA (performance)
2016 Kunstudstilling, Onkel Olga’s Atelier Odense, Denmark
2015 Chautauqua School of Art Open House, The Art Quad Chautauqua, NY
2015 Student Show, Fowler-Kellogg Art Center Chautauqua, NY
2015 Bededag Abent Hus, Gæsteatelier Hollufgård Odense, Denmark
GRANTS, AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, Troy, NY 2022
GAF Fund Grant: Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 2022
The Project Completion Grant: Temple University Philadelphia, PA 2019
The New York Studio School Color Marathon Tuition Scholarship New York, NY 2018
Assets for Artists Residency at MASS MoCA North Adams, MA 2018
Associate Member, Cambridge Arts Association Cambridge, MA 2018
FQXI Physics of the Observer Grant (Finalist) 2016
Chautauqua School of Art Residency Chautauqua, NY 2015
Gæsteatelier Hollufgård Residency Odense, Denmark 2015
CURATORIAL
Testing Grounds. Cherry Street Pier and Race Street Pier, Philadelphia PA 2020
PRESS
WHYY coverage of curatorial project TESTING GROUNDS. 2020
Essay, On Groundedness, written by curator Tausif Noor for the online exhibition Certain Ground. 2020