“I’m all for creativity and imagination, but when someone lives in a fantasy world and expects other people to go along with it, I have a problem with that.”

-Lisa Hansen, Michigan mother addressing a school board on the topic of alleged “furry identifying” students using a litter box as a bathroom; a claim determined to be false. 2022

I am a NY-based artist born on Long Island. My father is a deacon in the Catholic church, and my mother works for a corporation that makes Halloween costumes. I graduated with a BFA from the Purchase School of Art and Design in 2015, and since then I’ve shown my work both locally and internationally. I’ve had solo shows with Bunker Projects in Pittsburgh, PA and the James Black Gallery in Vancouver, BC, and have shown recently with Deli Grocery Gallery, Field Projects, The Bellevue Art Museum, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, YNGSPC, LVL3, and SPRING/BREAK ART FAIR. I currently live and work in Brooklyn NY with several houseplants (no dogs yet).

I’m a painter and textile artist making work about the queer body finding roots. I work mostly in figurative painting, my practice pulling from both art history and my participation in contemporary LGBT-centric subcultures and kink scenes like pup players and the furry community. I’m not a mere observer but a sincere participant in these worlds. My work takes on the forms and rituals of these radically transhuman communities, informed by equal parts painting tradition and internet-based tomfoolery. My most recent work takes on the furry rite of passage of creating a “fursona” for myself, and I utilize craft and industrial materials like faux fur, upholstery foam, burlap, glitter, polyfil, and fluorescent aquarium rocks to bring this creature to life both on canvas and on my own body. Woof! Bark!