Speaking in London in 1938, the year of the landmark “Exposition Internationale du Surrealisme" in Paris, Max Beckman summarized the problem of seeing as follows, “there are two worlds: the world of spiritual life and the world of political reality.”
I am equally interested in the clash between these worlds and the bridges between them. Epistemologically, those who see ghosts live in different worlds than those who don’t, just as those who do not believe in saints will not be cured by the miracles of saints. Said differently, what appears to some observers as far-fetched, appears to others as a viable way to describe reality. In our own time, misinformation, polarization, generative artificial intelligence, deepfakes, ghosting, augmented reality, and years of lockdown have profoundly changed the ways in which we inhabit what is real and relate to the political world. Each of us now also lives with the quotidian pressure to be globally connected at all times and to hold an informed viewpoint about virtually every topic regardless of expertise — baring in mind that the internet is inexhaustible and exponentially growing. The French sociologist Jean Baudrillard described this concept as the hyperreal, a reality without origin where representation becomes indistinguishable from truth.
In this era of virtuality, abstraction is a better way for me to assimilate the hyperreal than representational drawing and painting. In removing myself from figurative art and the pitfalls of conspicuous symbolism, I have been able to more effectively translate the essence of the wildness I observe and internalize into painting.
2022 BA in Hispanic Studies and English/Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Thesis Prize, Dean's List
2022 BA in Modern European Studies, Trinity College, Dublin
First Class Honours, Dean's Studentship
2023-24 Art Students League of New York (advised by Pat Lipsky)
2019 Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (Drawing School)
2018 Academy for Visual and Performing Arts, New Jersey (International Baccalaureate)
2017 Cooper Union School of Art, Pre-College Division
2025 The Salon Show, Visionary Projects, New York, NY
2025 The 108th Annual Juried Exhibition of the Greenwich Art Society, Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich, CT
2025 A Room of Ideas, Temple Gallery, New York, NY
2025 All the Light I see, Van Der Plas Gallery, New York, NY
2025 With Love, New York, Visionary Projects, New York, NY
2024 Juried Selection, Gallery OneTwentyEight, New York, NY
2024 Faculty Juried Selection, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY
2024 Abstraction Group Show, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY (Awarded Best in Show by Faculty Blind Jury)
2018 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Gold Medal Exhibition, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
2018 Pre-College Senior Exhibition, Cooper Union, New York, NY
2017 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Gold Medal Exhibition, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
2017 Juried Selection, Belskie Museum of Art and Science, New Jersey
2022 Construir la realidad y la modernidad en el Caribe: Los orígenes de lo real maravilloso
2022 La ética de dar testimonio: Representaciones visuales de violencia en la frontera Mexicana-Estadounidense
2022 Camp in the Canon, Camp after Sontag
2022 Interview with Marco Estrella, Founder of Estrella Gallery, Lower East Side, NYC
2022 Tricontinentalism, Imperialism, and Visual Propaganda in Cuba: 1966 and Beyond
2021 Creating and Defending a Black Death Spectacle: Injustice in Dana Schutz's Painting of Emmett Till
2020 Finding Carmen Herrera
2020 Antropofogia y El Neobarraco: Modernidadad transatlantica en Brasil
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