Thanks for celebrating my bday and the beginnings of my 🦢 era this past weekend, beloveds. We did so many things! I’m exhausted! And I have so many delectable new books to read.📚 Extra special thanks to my love @chancecutrano for co-conspiring, & thanks to him and @jwfeather for documenting so much joy 📸
Becoming-Rock, 2025
Watercolor & gouache on paper
26 x 52 inches
Another one that I began a number of years ago and let languish for a while before finishing it up this year, Becoming-Rock is an exploration of human/non-human hybridity—an emotional examination of what the agentic power of geologic formations may feel like from the inside.
Marauders I, 2025
Watercolor & gouache on paper
52 x 30 inches
This is one of a pair of Marauders that I started during my time at @vermontstudiocenter last year, to which I have finally been able to put the finishing touches. I was reading and thinking about witches and witchcraft, theft, plant life, and doubling. The mood is also heavily influenced by Elspeth Barker’s O Caledonia, which I was reading at the time.
Last night at the dreamy opening reception for Second Nature at @modernisminc . Grateful that—amidst all of the wonderful chaos— @instaeleanor captured a shot of me with my hedge and trash bins, and @lauren_bartone and I managed to get a moment together as our work chatted around us. 🌱💬
Second Nature at Modernism 🌱
Sept 4-Nov 4th, 2025
Opening Reception tonight, Sept 4, from 6-8pm
I am honored to have two of my works included in Second Nature, a group show opening today at the iconic SF @modernisminc gallery:
Still Life with Clippings and Waste Bin (diptych)
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper
72 x 50 inches framed
Flagged Hedge
Ligustrum (Privet) hedge clippings, electrical tape
32 x 62 x 40 inches
About the exhibition:
Modernism is pleased to present Second Nature, a group show of 50 artworks from 1900 to contemporary, which explores the indeterminate boundary between the organic and the constructed. The exhibition brings together works that appear to authentically depict nature with seemingly blatant manipulations of the natural world. As the organic is transformed and artificial compositions mimic nature, Second Nature invites viewers to reconsider the divide. What appears raw may be refined and what seems fabricated, unexpectedly true to nature.
Come visit me and my diptych Still Life with Clippings and Waste Bin (and my Flagged Hedge sculpture!) this Thursday 9/4 from 6-8pm at @modernisminc for the opening reception of Second Nature, a group exhibition featuring works 50 works from 1900 to contemporary, which explores the indeterminate boundary between the organic and the constructed.
Dropping a few new luscious detail shots of Haxan Fence taken by the brilliant @minoosh_z 🧡
Haxan Fence, 2025
Plastic construction fencing, glass beads, found plant matter, other found objects
60 x 60 inches
Have you visited Lay of the Land at @rootdivision yet?! We’re still riding the high from our opening reception last Saturday and looking forward to our public event coming up on Saturday, July 12…more on that soon, stay tuned!

In the meantime, some installation shots of the exhibition! Thanks as always to our extraordinary exhibiting artists and to the whole team at Root Division. And special thanks to @hunterthegatherersf and @chancecutrano for photography. Â
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Lay of the Land
Curated by Julianna Heller, Eleanor Scholz O’Leary, and Naomi Alessandra Schultz
On view June 12-July 26
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Exhibiting Artists:
Jeremiah Barber
Alicia Escott
Emily Gui
Jada Simone Haynes
Shao-Feng Hsu
Phil McGaughy
Joshua Moreno
Eleanor Scholz O’Leary
Sun Park
Callan Porter-Romero
Tricia Rainwater
Naomi Alessandra Schultz
Nicole Shaffer
Catherine Wang McMahon
