Artist bio

As a professor of psychology, I have spent my career studying the psychological experiences associated with being a woman. After dedicating many years to writing for an academic audience, I began exploring new mediums to communicate my work to a broader audience. In the last ten years, I wrote a novel (Finding Jolie) and have been exploring similar themes in my artwork, which has been exhibited at various galleries and stores in the Tampa Bay area. You can find in my gallery a series of Buddhas, many paintings of women and girls, a few of men, lovers, bar scenes, abstract cities, more abstract work, and even some birds. 

My current series is a celebration of powerful, particularly liberal, women, who I believe are changing the world. My paintings include Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Michelle Obama, Aretha Franklin, Angela Davis, Amanda Gorman, Frida Kahlo, Stacey Abrams and Kamala Harris.  I have also been putting these images on super cute, stylish muscle tees (Art-Ts). My painting of Kamala Harris with embedded shattered glass in the background, and a picture of me wearing the Art-T, went viral on Pantsuit Nation.  I also recently gave a talk featuring my art, Art-Ts, and my research, as part of the Lee Miller exhibit at the Dali Museum in St Petersburg, FL. I am so excited to share my art with women, and excited to see them wearing it proudly. 

I also do artwork by commission. Let's chat if you could use some original art in your life and home (check out the Home Design section in my gallery for inspiration).