On View: April 22-28, 2026
Reception: Friday, April 24, 2026, 5-6 P.M.
I am a Studio Art major with an Applied Physics minor and a member of the Women’s Lacrosse Team at Davidson College. Originally from Glenview, Illinois, I plan to pursue a master’s in architecture after graduation. My work explores how architectural space transforms through light and marks. Beginning with sketches on black paper that evolve into three-dimensional models, I use projected light to reveal hidden spatial qualities and traces of process. Illumination becomes both a material and a way to unveil memory embedded within the space.
Artist Statement:
At the core of my artistic practice is an exploration of architectural space and its transformation through a cumulative, multi-step process. This practice was created with the intent of developing a means of producing a drawing as the culmination of all the steps. The materials I begin with, black paper and pastels that I sketch ideas and notes on, remain present through every phase of the work. After getting out all of my ideas, I take the paper and construct three-dimensional models that extend the potential of the sketches. Intense light then becomes a tool, reshaping the model and revealing hidden spatial qualities. Photographing from multiple angles allows me to enter the work, uncovering unrealized ideas only visible once transformed by light. These perspectives become starting points for further transformation through drawing. However, as my process has evolved I have captured images that excite me not to go back into and draw on paper, but standing alone. These images are not always inherently architectural, but instead highlight a different sense of mystery or emotion in the spaces without further manipulation or understanding.
I have been grappling with how to define the spaces I create, continually questioning both the original concepts of my models and the transformations that emerge through light and photography. Drawing on the Light and Space movement, I see light not as a means of illumination but as an active material that redefines perception. The spaces I construct have increasingly evoked what I think of as abandoned memory. They are moments of my experience and ideas that resurface through physical form, while remaining imperfect or obscured. Each model carries aspects of memory in the sketches, marks, and material gestures, while simultaneously opening space for new interpretations through interjected light. Even the projector, my main light source, functions as a moment of memory. The original images from the slides dissolve into hazy fields of color, leaving behind only slight impressions of what used to be there. The result is a process where memory becomes an underlying part of the piece that shapes how the space is experienced and understood.
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