Slant Six: Woody, Peg, and Val is an ongoing project about lesbian friends working on a car. The tradition of genre painting (a close look at overly familiar activities) provides a useful framework for me to look at cultural shifts in understanding and acceptance around sexual identity issues.

The work is about Woody and Peg's trust and mutual admiration, their goal of getting the car going, and also about ripples of cognition about who they are. Viewers initially receive this work as a couple of guys working on a car. Their gender comes into focus slowly, and then a recognition of their butch identity/reality. I hope to engage viewers in a performance of examination, assessment, and reassessment, re-enacting internal misinterpretations and gradual epiphanies.

Other work in progress: a series about relationships between dancers and musicians and a series about artists who do self-portraits.

Education: SMFA Diploma 2005; SMFA Fifth Year 2008; SMFA Traveling Scholarship 2009.
Recent shows: Boston Museum of Fine Arts 2010; Assumption College 2010.
Articles: Big Red Shiny 2010; Boston Globe 2010; ArtScope 2010.