My work explores materiality—primarily paint—and its spatial and formal potential through a minimalist lens. Guided by process rather than concept, I construct layered, often distressed surfaces that reject refinement in favor of immediacy and presence. The resulting paintings and wall-based sculptures invite a direct, embodied experience, privileging physical sensation over narrative or conceptual interpretation.
Recent News and Press
Collectors’ Night 2025
May 1, 2025
Washington Project for the Arts
For 45 years, WPA’s art auction (Collectors’ Night) has been a staple of the DC art scene. Collectors’ Night is not only an opportunity to celebrate with our community, but also provides essential support for the powerful, artist-organized contemporary art programs that WPA produces right here in DC.
A tactile, textural, dynamic group exhibit
July 19, 2024
The Washington Post
The four participants in “Beyond Surface,” a new exhibition at Pazo Fine Art, begin with the language of painting and drawing but expand that vernacular into the third dimension. The resulting artworks may be sleek or craggy, tightly contained or free form. But all speak fluently to each other, indicating that Pazo Fine Art was astute to convene these artists, three from Washington and one from Baltimore.
Beyond Surface
June 15 - August 3, 2024
Pazo Fine Art
Pazo Fine Art is thrilled to announce a group exhibition Beyond Surface, highlighting paintings, sculptures, and hybrid works by Joanne Kent, Ara Koh, Giulia Livi, and Kristina Penhoet. Beyond Surface brings together four Washington metropolitan area based artists whose works traverse the realms of painting, sculpture, and the spaces in between.
In the galleries: Celebrating the depth and breadth of area artists
November 3, 2023
Washington Post
With work by 50 contributors, “(Not) Strictly Painting” is an impressive survey of recent output by local artists who are (mostly) painters. For regular visitors to the area’s visual-art venues, though, the McLean Project for the Arts exhibition may prompt sensations of déjà vu.