ARTIST STATEMENT

My work is a reflection of the shapes, lines, designs and proportions of the beauty within all things visual and tangible, distilled through my visual and textured filter, manifested in sculpture and the visual arts.
 

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​HONORS AND EXHIBITIONS​

AnkhLave Garden Project Fellowship, Queens, NYC  (2022)

Solar Power for Artist Micro Artist Residency, NYC  (2022)

QCA Queens Art Fund New Work Grant, Queens, NYC  (2022) 

City Arts Corp Grant, City Arts Corp, NYC  (2021)

Downtown Brooklyn + Dumbo Art Fund, Brooklyn, NYC  (2021)

Alliance for Flushing Meadows Corona Park Grant, Queens, NYC  (2021)

LMCC Governors Island Residency, Governors Island, NYC  (2020) 

QCA Queens Art Fund New Work Grant, Queens, NYC  (2020) 

QCA ArtPort Residency Program, Marine Air Terminal LGA  (2018)

Socrates Sculpture Park Annual Fellowship, Queens NY  (2018)

Fantasy Fund Fellowship, Modern Art Foundry, Queens NY  (2017)

Art Students League of NY, Public Art Fellowship, NYC   (2012) 

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EXHIBITIONS

Sky’s the Limit in the County of Kings, Clumber Corner, Brooklyn, NY  (2022)

The 4th Annual Ankhlave Garden Project, Queens Botanical Garden, Queens, NY  (2022)

The Sculpture Shopp at Ithaca Mall Cornell University, Ithaca Mall, Ithaca, NY   (2022) 

Cultural Connections Group Exhibition, The Gallery Space Rahway, Rahway, NJ  (2022)

Going Back to the Meadows, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY  (2021)

The Magic Hour, Inside/Out, South Street Seaport, NYC  (2021)

A Cypher in Queens Solo Exhibition, Queens Central Library, Queens, NY  (2019)

Passenger Relief, Permanent Exhibition, Marine Air Terminal (A) LaGuardia Airport, NY  (2019)

A Tribute to African American Artists, Sotherby’s International, Montclair, NJ  (2019)

Hyakkimaru & Friends Sculpture Exhibition, Ossam Gallery, Brooklyn, NY  (2019)

Socrates Park Annual Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC, NY  (2018) 

LIC Arts Open Studio Group Exhibition, The Plaxall Gallery, LIC, NY  (2018)

LIC Arts Open: Creature Group Exhibition, The Factory LIC Gallery, LIC, NY  (2018)

Model to Monument Public Art Exhibition, Riverside Park South, NYC  (2013)

Model to Monument Public Art Exhibition, Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx, NY  (2013)

Merit Scholarship Exhibition in Sculpture, The Art Students League of New York, NYC (2009)

The New Jersey Show Group Exhibition, Jersey City, NJ  (2009)

​Illustration Graduating Class Exhibition, Parsons School of Design, NYC (1999)

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