ART
RECENT ACQUISITIONS:
Colorado State University, Spur Permanent Art Collection, CO
Mass General Brigham (Martha's Vineyard Hospital),
Edward Miller and Monina von Opel Permanent Art Collection, MA
Garrett Museum of Art (GMoA), IN
CURRENTLY ON VIEW:
Human and Animal Connection, Colorado State University Spur, Denver, CO (Oct. 20, 2025 - Mar. 13, 2026)
Big Picture Biennial, Denver, CO (Jul. 2025 - Jun. 2027)
UPCOMING SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
I Don't Want to Die, Curated by Dikeou Collection director Hayley Richardson, Denver, CO (Spring 2026)
Radish Row, Surface Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO (Mar. 6 - April 3, 2026)
Abrasion, Legion Paper, New York, NY (Mar. 12 - Apr. 13, 2026) *Legion's inaugural exhibition
PAINTING
My practice explores the human condition, engaging themes of visibility and resilience through a feminist lens. My work is centered in figurative painting and unfolds across distinct series that share a cohesive conceptual foundation grounded in existential concerns and a heightened awareness of mortality. Subtle surreal and ghostly elements surface through distortion and absence, alongside an interest in how impermanence and spiritual uncertainty shape the body, identity, and the desire to be seen. An expression that resonates with me and informs my practice is “the darker the shadow, the brighter the light.” I sign my work Dagu, the name I called myself as a child, reflecting my intuitive creative process and the value of childlike exploration.
SCULPTURE & INSTALLATION
I work with found objects from my childhood, alongside fabricated forms and materials inspired by those objects and scenes, to examine memory, fear, mortality, self-worth, and ambition. Domestic objects and corporeal fragments are transformed through accumulation, casting, and monochrome. My work engages feminist concerns around cultural gender conditioning, objectification, inequality, and bodily autonomy.
PHOTOGRAPHY
As a photographer I am interested in lived-in settings, and utilizing foreground elements, shadows, lines, and a subject's gaze to make evocative, sometimes haunting art. As with my paintings, much of my work is an exploration and expression of the human experience, and my connection to the natural world. I am drawn to emotional and naturalistic portraiture, as well as street photography. An avid traveler and nature lover, I often photograph people, animals, and places from my travels, shooting exclusively using natural light.
My work is a combination of directed image creation and photographing candid moments. This blend of controlled art making with capturing the unplanned allows me to remain a careful observer in close connection with my instincts. I prefer to shoot using 35mm black-and-white film. At times I shoot digitally, sometimes presenting my photographs completely unedited, and other times employing digital manipulation to create a vintage, saturnine, if surrealist feel.