2024
"People We Think We Know" is my current series using a combination of found snapshots and images that I create. These people could possibly be from my past that feel achingly familiar. It allows me to swim in the memories of the happiest period of my life." LS.
To make them real to myself and to the viewer I imbue them with back stories filled with history, relationships, families, and life choices.
2023
I use pop culture references focusing on celebrity, fashion, and cinema in combination with my private emotional life that changes from day to day. Using images that I find in the halls of the internet and transform through my imagination (as well as photographs that I take myself), I switch back and forth between oils and water-based paints to keep the flows of the painting as fresh as possible. Having grown up as the daughter of a staff LIFE photographer, my connection to photographs is particularly profound.
I grew up thinking in pictures. l stein
Move on 2022
While living in an attic apartment which was dark and oppressive with slanted ceiling and intense temperatures, I was actively cultivating an internal world that developed from haunting the halls of the internet collecting, saving, filing, and organizing hundreds of images.
This June, I moved and for the first time realized how challenging the last four years really were. The paintings here on the south wall, except for Bottoms in the center, were painted this June to celebrate what I can only describe as being back in the light. Abbie Cohen, owner of the Ketonet Passim Bookstore, offered me an invitation to exhibit. This was the perfect opportunity to recalibrate happily.
Only after I moved did I use the view of the Hudson River from my old apartment as a subject matter. I used photographs and my memory for reference.
On the north wall of the bookstore are all the friends I made during that solitary period of my life, a diary of my day-to-day inner life.
It feels incredible to get out for a walk around the block.
STILL A GIRL 2021
I post daily on Instagram like a firework shot into the night that says,“I’m here.”
I haunt the halls of the internet collecting, saving, filing, and organizing hundreds of images. Over time, I distill them down to the images with which I feel a special connection. It’s never initally apparent, but over time, it reveals itself to me.
My images are imbued with complex emotional lives that struggle,are victorious, but rarely are blissfully at peace. My work is spun with the anxiety of the future.
Living a solitary life, one could say that I’m literally “making” friends.
I am still a girl filled with contradictions. Sitting on the grass in the yard, drawing endlessly where I feel safe.
My work reflects who and where I am in this life.