Graphic Novels, Illustration, Fine Art, Design

My work investigates the intersection between image and text, figure and architecture, architecture and landscape.

I am inspired by the grammar of comics and graphic novels but am seeking to expand the vocabulary of the narratives traditionally presented in this medium by exploring themes of gender, sexuality, memory and urbanism, among other things. On a formal level, some of my pieces conflate the tools of architectural representation with those of sequential narrative in order to question these very methods and offer new means of representing space, time and the role of the body in both simultaneously.

I have two graphic novels out in 2020: Apsara Engine, a collection of eight short stories, published by The Feminist Press, and Spellbound, a graphic memoir published by Street Noise Books.

My comics work has previously appeared in The New Yorker, We’re Still Here (The first all-trans comics anthology), Beyond, vol. 2, The Strumpet, The Boston Review, Black Warrior Review, VICE, Buzzfeed, Ink Brick, Hi-horse, (a four-person comics anthology of which I was a co-editor and contributing artist), Blurred Vision, Pood,  the academic journal Specs, The Brooklyn Rail,  Volume 3 of the acclaimed Graphic Canon series from Seven Stories Press. I received the prestigious Xeric grant in 2003 for my comics collection Angel.

My more architectural work is featured in Singlehandedly: Contemporary Architects Draw by Hand, published by Princeton Architectural Press and I am the illustrator of The Prefab Bathroom: An Architectural History, published by McFarland Press.

My artwork was featured in Animal Magic, a solo show of watercolors at ArtLexis Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Story/Line: Narrative Form in Six Graphic Novelists, a group show at the Bannister Gallery at Rhode Island College, The Graphic Canon, World Literature through Art & Comics, a group show at Grady Alexis Gallery (New York, NY), Devotional Paintings, a solo show at Jaya Yoga Center (Brooklyn, NY,) The Unusual Suspects, a group show at De Cacaofabriek (Helmond, Netherlands) and at Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream at The Society of Illustrators (New York, NY).

Although I received a master’s degree in architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and have worked for many years in the field (most notably at I.M. Pei’s New York office), I have switched my focus to concentrate on art, comics,illustration and graphic design.

I live in Brooklyn, NY.