Portfolio

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  Madame B’s Tarot Readings (2023 to current) is a reimagining of tarot cards through self-portraiture (à la Cindy Sherman), camp, and kitsch. The series embraces humor, stereotype, and identity while respectfully nodding to traditional tarot imagery.

In a world that suspends reality, the work invites viewers into a space where mysticism and absurdity coexist. Through exaggerated characters, and symbolism, Madame B transforms the tarot into a mirror reflecting the roles we play in our lives.

   Something Wicked is an atmospheric short horror project rooted in archive, memory, performance, and the danger of spectacle. Emerging from characters like Madame B, the Ringmaster, and the Child Seer, it builds a dreamlike carnival world where tarot, ritual, and theatrical artifice become portals into fear, desire, and reinvention. Part gothic fantasia and part psychological descent, it explores what happens when old creations return with a will of their own.

 This ain’t your mama’s American Gothic—but maybe that’s the point. Blending appropriation, camp, and satire, American Throuple reimagines an iconic image to explore contemporary ideas of relationships, identity, and modern domesticity. By twisting a familiar piece of Americana into something playful and unexpected, the work questions tradition while embracing the beautifully awkward complexity of modern connection.

Appropriation. A word that has gotten much maligned over the years. However, when we aren’t appropriating cultures, the power of appropriation is limitless. Appropriation is when we take something of someone else’s and make it our own.  The after series was borne from my desire to dive even deeper into my studies of my inspirations to take my lens-based imagery to another dimension. 

 Inner Fears: Portrait of a Teller’s Fortune (2022) explores identity through self-portraiture, performance, and persona. Inspired by the world of the sideshow, the work brings imagined characters to life while questioning how we present, conceal, and reinvent ourselves. Through theatrical imagery and staged narratives, the series examines the tension between authenticity and performance.

 In Get a Clue (2020), the suspects from the classic childhood board game Clue are the subjects of my social commentary—part character study, part character assassination. Through staged imagery and reinterpretation, the series explores identity, suspicion, and the carefully constructed roles people inhabit in everyday life. Blending humor, camp, and nostalgia, the work reconsiders familiar characters through a darker, satirical lens.

Inner Fears is an ongoing series that began in 2019.  It examines moments of discomfort that drive the viewer into the world of nightmares.  Whether being caught in a compromising position, or feeling that the weight of the world is drowning you, the cinematic scenes take the viewer inside the ultimate nightmare: their inner fears.

Lonely Palm Springs (2015) is set in the iconic Riviera Hotel in Palm Springs.  These images allow the viewer to find themselves taken into a world in which we may be surrounded by others but feel utterly alone.

Devoid (2019) takes the viewer into situations in which no emotion or engagement is happening.  Whether it’s staring into a mirror or being in bed with one’s partner, the scenes are devoid of emotion. 

Faces di Carnevale (2009) examines the masks used in the Venetian celebration.  They are vehicles for preserving one's anonymity.  The viewer can be anyone when  hiding in the midst of Venice’s Carnevale.

Tilting at Windmills (2013). is a retelling the story of Don Quixote in which a hooded figure goes to battle against the demons represented in the windmills.  Shot on location in Palm Springs.

Screen Printing is the latest medium I have investigated as part of my art practice.  In this realm, I embrace my identity as a storyteller and activist as I present large-format work through the process embraced by Andy Warhol.