artist statement

Needlework has always been regarded as “women’s work” in terms of expressing the virtues of femininity, domesticity, and obedience. My language-based needlework aligns with “subversive stitching” as it creatively disrupts cultural attitudes through satirical social commentary, disarmingly softened by the use of needle and thread.

Blending humor with tension, vulnerability with bite, and disruption with whimsy, my artistic practice looks to the past with an eye to the future. I work with vintage textiles and needlework adding my own hand-stitched layer to update its original purpose and focus on the evolution of cultural norms specific to gender, generation, and relationship dynamics. The juxtaposition of this multigenerational storytelling creates a unique dialogue between the past and present.

ART AND THE ARTIST

I studied at the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (currently Villa Arson) in Nice, France where I earned a BFA in sculpture. Moving to New York and then Los Angeles, I had great commercial success influencing and leading creative teams for international fashion, beauty, lifestyle, and toy brands specifically as head of a Barbie Design team for Mattel, Global Design Director for Calvin Klein Beauty, and the Global Creative Director for Disney.

Having worked professionally as a Creative executive and unprofessionally as a late-blooming mother of two daughters, I have been deeply influenced by my efforts to cultivate partnerships within male-dominated environments as well as create space and opportunities for female-centered pathways and belief systems. Both jobs have required extremely clever navigating skills along with a spirited sense of humor.

As a lifelong “maker’’ and lover of arts & crafts, I feel that I have come full circle from learning to crochet and knit with my Nana as a young girl to creating artistic and provocative variations of needlework as an artist.

EXHIBITIONS

2026 - KIDIOMS, Fat/Phat Juried Exhibition City Lights Gallery Bridgeport, CT

2026 - AMONG THE PAGES, Golden Threads & Creative Paper Juried Exhibition Spectrum Gallery Essex, CT

2026 - EXIT STRATEGIES, LOOK AWAY, SHAG BANDITS, All Women Exhibition Contemporary Art Gallery (online)

2026 - TOMATO, Fiber Forward Juried Exhibition Yellow Studio Cross River, NY

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