Grace is a Milwaukee-born painter and a senior BFA candidate in Studio Art at Denison University. Working primarily in oil, she focuses on domestic interiors—beds, couches, wallpapers, ceilings, and the quiet objects that structure everyday life. Her paintings explore how these spaces carry emotional and historical weight, absorbing memories and traces of the people who once inhabited them.

Growing up in an early 1900s home and spending much of her childhood in her grandmother’s richly decorated house, Grace developed a deep sensitivity to the atmospheres of lived-in spaces. These environments, filled with patterned fabrics, decorative wallpapers, and a carefully arranged, sometimes distorted perspective on furniture, allude to her loose memories of the rooms growing up and the dysfunction between the joy of a room and home and the contrasting tensions rooms can hold.  Furniture became her earliest lessons in how rooms can hold warmth, tension, happiness, or melancholy. Rooms do not lose this ability even when unoccupied for extended periods.  This sensitivity contributes to shaping and grounding her work intuitively and reflectively, where she draws on concrete and more loosely filled memories to create her paintings.  

Grace’s paintings often alternate remembered rooms with imagined instances of genuine and falsified memories, creating interiors that feel simultaneously familiar and distant. She is especially interested in how objects and decorative elements function as witnesses to emotion and, in fact, material forms that store the influences of daily gestures, routines, and relationships. Through meticulous attention to pattern, color, and spatial arrangement, her work highlights the subtle but powerful ways domestic environments shape human experience.

She currently lives and works in Milwaukee and Ohio.