PDX BORN AND RAISED // ACTIVE FEMINIST // STEM SUPPORTER // MONSTER LOVER // PRACTICAL EFFECTS ENTHUSIAST
PEN // PAPER // INK // PENCIL // MARKER
“Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare or a Witches’ Sabbath or a portrait of the devil, but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That’s because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear—the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper colour contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness. I don’t have to tell you why a Fuseli really brings a shiver while a cheap ghost-story frontispiece merely makes us laugh. There’s something those fellows catch—beyond life—that they’re able to make us catch for a second.”
COMING SOON: "Wear & Tear: Re-Modeled" & "Merch"
October 2015: Self-Produced, one-night art exhibit featuring monsters created by over 25 local artists.
The event was a huge success, pulling in over 400 visitors in the course of a few hours. The show featured the art of over 25 local artists, as well as live body painting, live music, wine and beer. Monstrasomnia was held at Refuge PDX. Refuge owner Maria Toth has said on multiple occasions that Monstrasomnia was one of the best show she's seen at that space in years.
November 2016: Self-coordinated and produced one-night art exhibit in collaboration with local Portland kinetic artist Sam Cobb.
The show featured wearable art pieces built by five local makeup and fabrication effects artists - whose work has been featured on Grimm, The Fly, Chronicles of Riddick, and more.
FEATURED ARTISTS: SAM COBB, CHRIS WALAS, UGO SERRANO, CHRISTINA KORTUM, & TOBY FROUD.
ON SCREEN
ON STAGE
Experience at the Eugene O'Neill Puppetry Conference:
2015
Studied small mechanical puppet manipulation under Jim Kroupa as one of several characters in his children's short "The Howdy-Doo Show."
2016
Studied rudimentary marionette building and manipulation from Jim Rose - son of Rufus and Margo Rose of Howdy Doody fame.
My personal project was to test my directorial skills and interest in direction via a scene from a short play featuring three volunteer actors.
2017
Attended the pre-conference only, learning guerilla-style puppet filming through the Video Anarchy strand - run by Tim Lagasse and Martin Robinson:
Ruff Night
Puppet short by Anya Bogorad, et al. Music by LuvJonez.
