Exhibitions
Manhattan Beach Art Center, Juried Community Exhibition
July 26 – October 6, 2024
Manhattan Beach Art Center
Manhattan Beach Art Center, Juried Community Exhibition
July 29 – October 2, 2022
Manhattan Beach Art Center
City of Santa Clarita, Art Commission, “Surreal”
September 16 – December 9, 2022
City Hall, Santa Clarita
As an architect and textile artist, my woven practice explores the intersections of women’s rights, the landscapes of Southern California, and the legacy of inherited weaving traditions. Through layered fibers, handwoven structures, and repetitive processes, I investigate how textiles can communicate a playfulness and abstract imagery.
My background in architecture strongly informs the way I approach weaving. I see textiles as spatial constructions, surfaces that shape perception, define boundaries, and create environments through texture, light, and pattern. Unlike architecture, there is a hidden unknown in the final solutions of weaving, a final unveiling that is exhilarating, fearful and forced acceptance of the end product. Textile patterning becomes both a visual language and a method of constructing space, connecting the intimacy of handcraft with larger spatial systems. I seek a looseness to precision, expressing my need for release in expression and not precision. An acceptance of flaws to allow for a wildness of solutions that might appear.
Central to my practice is the idea of woven legacy: the transmission of knowledge and care through generations of women. The works of grandmother are on view in my house and her perfection is not a goal but a forward movement of changing legacy. I view weaving as both a material process and a form of storytelling. Repetition, repair, frayed edges, and layered surfaces become metaphors for survival, collective strength, and the ongoing pursuit of freedom of expression and my need to create. As a break from the precision of day to day work, day to day functional requirements. Creative folly.
Garden Travels
2026 Woven Yarn Tapestry
Sunset Thneed
2022
12”x36'“, 12”x24” Yarn
Venus Thneed
2023, 12”x72” Yarn
Manhattan Beach Pier Thneed
2023, 12”x36” Yarn
