I discovered the world of art at a young age, but my time in fashion design school led me to diverse experiences and opportunities with life drawing. For me, drawing figures and portraits have been something that I’ve always loved. My figurative work is mostly based on digital drawings, charcoal, chalk pastel, and colored pencils.  I embrace a minimalist style and realistic drawings to create impactful and visually striking artworks. I explore diverse subjects and human emotions in my portrait sketches. Negative space, minimalist composition, and a limited color palette are the main elements of my drawings. Infused with subtle color, my daily sketches exude soft contrast and delicate blending.  On the contrary, my abstract paintings are eclectic, created with oil/acrylic mediums, rich bright colors, and textures.  The textures in my paintings are done with thick paints, impastos and molding pastes, acrylic gels, and using non- paint materials. My work is informed by the visual language of impressionism, abstract expressionism and sociological themes.

My first book, Fashion Rendering, published in 2011, was about rendering techniques. This book provides quick and simple rendering techniques and serves as a guide for making accurate, professional, unique illustrations using locally available color mediums in the market.   I hold a Ph.D. degree in Sociology from The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York. My dissertation aims to understand the complexities of identity management, social bonding, and the social image of marginalized groups in the art world. I analyze how life models experience and define their work as a paradox between occupational demands in cultural production and the social taboo of public nudity that still exists. The lines of inquiry in my dissertation are derived from art history, production of culture, urban ethnography, the sociology of work, and micro-sociology/presentation of self.