Chancellor's Art Gallery

This is a print in an edition of 10 created through the process of mezzotint.

This is a print in an edition of 10 created through the process of mezzotint.

This is a print in an edition of 10 created through the process of mezzotint.

Through an intuitive process, I contemplate the use of vernacular photography as a mode of recording, preserving, and memorial. I am interested in the way images are central to our cultural experience and how photography has increased the rol images play in our everyday lives, and continues to become ever more present with new technologies. To explore this concept, I mine my own archive of images from past and present. An underpinning of domesticity is at play. The home is a vessel for storing our images, displaying them, and creating spaces of memorial in the everyday. Patterns act as adornments in the work, while also being images themselves, placing emphasis on the sacredness of the photographs represented. Floral motifs circulate the work as symbols of memorial celebration, cycles, and renewal.

The spaces we inhabit are vessels of personal histories that reflect who we are and how we exist in this world.

This painting was about creating a sense of trust and learning to trust myself. I aimed to create a sense of safety and space. From there, it was as if the painting and I conversed with another to find the next move for the piece.

This piece is from a body of work that examines the effects that images and digital space have on memory and identity. This drawing is an imagined "screen place", diagrammatically depicting signs, symbols and architectural elements.

My work in painting and printmaking combines Surrealist imagery with feminist persepctives through figurative portraits that are inspired by the color paletter of my tropical upbringing.

Through painting, I extract and distill my observations and perceptions of a particular environment while presenting the possibilities of abstraction. Weaving in and out of referential forms, colors and elemental shapes, I allow for intuitive and calculated responses as I imagine, invent, and explore fluid spaces, forms, color and gesture.

This piece comes from two figures I made while mindlessly playing with clay. By enlarging the figures and focusing on the subtle textures and cracks of the clay, this piece became an experience of exploration and labor rather than being made for the final product.

Daffodils continue the study of light and shadow, which is stated with the Cox palette, which provides an endless variation of chromatic blacks. Cox blacks create a nice foil to the chromatic yellow used to establish the flower's form, also warmed with a Transparent Oxide Red.

The Yellow Rose painting rests in a low-key pocket of shadow and atmosphere. Its premise provides a duality of light and shadow, plus thick, impasto paint against transparent layers.

In "Bottles, Fruit, and Tablecloth," I aim to explore the relationship between everyday objects and their colors, both cool and warm, vibrant and muted, to invite viewers to find beauty in the mundane.

The painting illustrates two figures playing badminton based on my collage reference inspired by Édouard Manet’s 1873 The Game of Croquet. I hope to communicate the leisure of life through play and to display my exploration of surface texture and shapes.

Using a homemade pinhole camera, I kayaked around Stillwater Reservoir in the Adirondacks and shot images on large format color film. With exposure times averaging 30 seconds, things in motion appear as a blur, sometimes showing patterns the human eye cannot easily detect.

A girl is wearing a photo of herself. all the expression represents the emotion she needed to go through in her school life.

This is one of a five part series. It is a journey throughout my day as a student.

This is one of a five part series. It is a journey throughout my day as a student.

This one of a five part series of digital photography. It is a journey throughout my day as a student.

With this work, I aim to illustrate the pure feeling of mental duress I feel as I take my medications, like clockwork, twice a day. Playing within the oxymoron Balanced Insanity allowed me to take a relatively normal action and turn it into an all-consuming action.

Figurative free hand mixed media drawing on photographic emulsion. Realistic personal representation of an anonymous feline, as an existential exploration of the human psyche. Style is highly influenced by the classical school of Spanish Baroque painting.

Figurative free hand mixed media drawing on photographic emulsion,. Realistic personal representation of someone anonymous, as an existential exploration of the human psyche. Style is highly influenced by the classical school of Spanish Baroque painting.

These three photographs are from travel courses I have led as a faculty member at SUNY Potsdam: Cuba in 2018, Mexico in 2020, and Italy in 2023. Travel courses enrich students learning because they are experiencing first-hand the art and history they study in the classroom.

A human touch is more than just a simple interaction, it releases energy and aura that orbits around the people in their life.

In the warmth of a light, I sit with him until he fades.

"Hallie, Steven, and Dani" captures an intimate, still moment, where the viewer is just out of reach, quietly observing.

In this piece, the viewer is drawn into the scene where a woman is seen folding clothing on a line. The warm tones of the bright orange and soft hints of yellow, set the hot climate that’s in place. The cooling colors from the sky reflecting off the sheer like sheets radiate a sense of softness and mellow tones from the painting. The single dark crimson rag draped over the line holds weight compared to the transparency that’s around it, pushing and pulling it back into the piece. The empty desert like background conveys the feeling and illusion of silence and loneliness yet filled with serenity. The pale empty sky is painted on the canvas with sheer layers of oil paint, as thick, heavy clouds cascade through it all, giving the viewer a deeper look into the scene. Hanging clothes to dry is an outdated custom in the new world, yet still very native in the Dominican Republic, Tendiendo la ropa. The painting describes the simple task of tending wet clothing out to dry, being able to find peace in the simple tasks and enjoying the state of solidarity they bring.

This work is my self-portrait inspired by Lucian Freud. I was into Lucian Freud's work because it shows the moment, emotion, and history of the model, so I wanted to show my emotion and history through this work.

The bulls, having faced an untimely demise via an opponent’s shotgun, remain standing. They stare back. It is silent and smoke lingers in the folds of their fur.

This piece comprises a collage of various charcoal rubbings from the textures around my campus. It is centered around my anxiety and the way art has allowed me to communicate. This piece is an accumulation of my inner feelings and how they fluctuate, shown through the mixing of texture.

Siblings get very envious when an older "cool" person starts showing a little bit more attention to one of them. They start putting on a show to win the attention back.

This was a painting in response to my failure to keep up physically with my life guard class. I used images from the memory and experience of trying to keep up.

"No Parecemos" reflects a moment of recognition, where the artist, for the first time, realizes her resemblance to her mother during the process of taking this photograph. Beyond physical likeness, the image captures the complexities and challenges of motherhood, bringing a new understanding of their shared experience.

"Glimpse" reflects on the fleeting nature of childhood and explores the complexities of memory and identity, emphasizing how the tangible documentation of a moment through photography shapes our understanding of self while allowing us to see ourselves as part of a larger narrative."

The combination of working en plein air and studio refinement allows for a passionate exploration of the immediacy of the landscape and personal interpretation through the medium of watercolor.

The combination of working en plein air and in studio refinement allows for a passionate exploration of the immediacy of the landscape and personal interpretation through the medium of watercolor.