Spring Open Studios at The Alameda Artworks

Saturday and Sunday, May 16 & 17, 11am - 5pm

In my studio practice I’m playful, curious, and experimental in my approach to subjects that can be heavy and yet also absurd.

When you visit my workspace you’ll see that I’m focusing on sculptures and stitched wall pieces that play with themes of softness, touch, consent, and how appearances can be deceiving. I continue to explore the way the color pink works, both physically in my bounced color pieces, and psychologically as a hue loaded with personal and varied associations.

I strive to use beauty and exquisite craftsmanship to create objects that trigger a sense of wonder, curiosity, and some healthy discomfort.

I’m curious about hierarchies of value associated with traditional ideas of femininity. The qualities that historically tend to be pushed on girls and women - be nice, be quiet, be accommodating - have a limiting and controlling effect. In my work (and in my life) I’m pushing against those ideas but cloaking them in pretty and approachable skins.

My location is: 1043C Garland Ave, San Jose, CA 95126 ; I’m in the Green Door Annex (through the lime-green door off the parking lot behind Recycle Bookstore). For this event I’ll be hosting four visitors in my hallway: Reen Rubay, Kay Fontana, Ezra Mara, and Tony Baxter Framing. See the map/directory below at the bottom of the page.

25 Alameda Artworks artists will be participating; besides me you can see the work of: Carmen Arjona-Ariza, Amy Brown, Taryn Curiel, Ayelet Gal-On, Linda Gass, Gloria Huet, Ally Kraus,Sylvie Levesque, Belinda Lima, Margaret Luo,Stacey Nussbaum, Anne Pegolotti, Dara Renova, Ayesha Samdani,Sabrina Sanchez, Lynne Strom-Berg,Renee Switkes, and Nancy Walters.

We are wheelchair accessible. Parking can be found in the lot behind Recycle Bookstore, in the lot behind Crema and Visual Philosophy, and along the neighborhood streets. Sorry, due to ancient plumbing we do not have public restrooms available.

What IS Open Studios? What can you expect?


Open Studios is an event in which visual artists invite the public to visit their workspaces in person. Why would you want to do that?

  • to get a behind-the-scenes look at how and where art is created

  • to learn more about the artist and why they make what they make with their specific tools and materials

  • to purchase original art, prints, and gifts directly from the person who made them

  • to sign up for classes and workshops

A visit to my studio offers a glimpse into the curiosity (or perhaps obsessions) that drive me to make weird and beautiful things. You’ll see a ‘cabinet of curiosities’ of sorts, with specimens from real life (bones, seed pods, plants, metal bits) intermingled with specimens I shape from wool and felt. I’m very happy to talk about and demonstrate the techniques I use: stabbing at wool with specialized felting needles, poking it through paper to make ‘wool drawings,’ and stitching thick, flat industrial felt into dimensional objects. I love to share my process through public talks, workshops, and classes as well.

I’ll be showing and selling: