As a queer, female American artist, my figurative work asserts identity as both a site of resistance and a stage for transformation. Through painting and drawing, I create enigmatic characters who confront the viewer with a quiet but insistent presence. Rooted in traditional media but subversive in intent, these characters embody layered political and historical narratives shaped by gender nonconformity, queerness, and the deeply politicized nature of simply existing in a body that challenges norms.

I draw from history, feminist and queer theory, the aesthetics of protest, media and advertising, as well as the coded language of allegory and design. My figures inhabit a kind of suspended performance of a stillness that disrupts. They carry the weight of surveillance, erasure, defiance. They are archetypes fractured by lived experience, pieced back together in ways that speak to the resilience and complexity of queer identity.

In this liminal space between silence and assertion, I aim to expose the fault lines of power, beauty, and representation. My work invites viewers to look again, not just at the figures, but at the systems that define and constrain them. Every character I render becomes an invitation to question: who gets to be seen and on whose terms?