I am an interdisciplinary artist who creates intimate settings with my paintings and prints, and I then use these environments to organize social events and do interviews. I invite both people I know and strangers. My art work is mostly inspired by the shared efforts of locals to get a bike/pedestrian lane on the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, and I am a cofounder of Bike South Brooklyn.

I hold an MFA in Visual Arts from Hunter College in New York, NY, and an MA in International Relations from University of Chicago, IL. At Hunter, I was awarded the Hunter College Foundation Scholarship for exchange studies at the Slade, London. 

Among the places I've exhibited my work are: Edward Hopper House, New York Center for Book Arts, A.I.R. Gallery, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Bronx Arts Space, Flux Factory, The Old Stone House, Stand4 Gallery, BioBAT Project Space, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, and Southampton Cultural Center.

I've presented my work at the conferences of National Women's Study Association, Open Engagement (Queens Museum and Portland State University), the Alice Austen House Museum, and discussed it on NPR's The Brian Lehrer show. I've organized several projects involving many artists, and I contributed an essay to the publication by Open Engagement (art + social practice), The Questions We Ask Together, 100 artists responding to 100 Questions. To realize my projects, I have received funding from Manhattan Cultural Arts Fund, Queens Arts Council and Norddjurs Kommune (Denmark). My work is in the collection of New York City Parks and private collections, including that of Candida Höfer. 

This work, Wild Otium, will be part of the Living Arrangements exhibition at Kathryn Markel gallery, Chelsea, Feb. 16 - March 25, 2023

I am showing Harbor Lines at the Madelle Hegeler Semerjian Gallery in Rogers Memorial Library, Southampton, NY.

NY 1 segment on my Harbor Library at Stand4 Gallery

Harbor Library opening at Stand4 Gallery is on Friday July 8, 6PM- 8PM, 2022, with a closing conversation on July 31, 1PM -3PM.

I am showing Plant Library as part of this exhibition.

Plant Based reveals the work of five artists - Jeannine Bardo, Nancy Cohen, Laura Fayer, Anna Lise Jensen and Tucker Nichols - who share an engagement with nature as well as active participation in local communities, from creating and supporting local art spaces, to initiating and maintaining neighborhood web platforms, to petitioning for green mobility and gifting flower art as solace for sick people.

Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center: Early observations of the changes in the climate that have led to our current climate crisis were made by scientists; however, it has not been scientists alone who have addressed this crisis. This conference will explore the interdisciplinary ferment created by scientists, artists, activists, and others whose work grapples with climate change at the intersection of art, science, and the environment. 

Bringing together a diverse array of scientists, artists and community members, we will discuss and learn from the integration of artistic practice and scientific inquiry as a method of addressing the climate crisis globally and locally via the Brooklyn Waterfront.

For this outdoor exhibition, I am showing large QRCs that lead to my petition to get a bike/pedestrian lane on the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. As part of this exhibition, I am organizing a June 27 collaboration with Openings NY, Harbor Ring and Stand4 Gallery, with our talks by the exhibition fence followed by a post Harbor Ring ride celebration in Central Park.

I am presenting Jane Jacobs Lives Here: Bike The Verrazzano for this event, hosted by Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center and The Old Stone House.

"In life, in art, in science — everything has a degree of uncertainty and we are living in times of unfolding unknowns. In November 2020, Stand4 Gallery will host an invitational exhibition and fundraiser that embraces the concept of uncertainty."

I am Artist in Residence at Solidarity Space - the former campaign office of Ross Barkan that he and former staff are continuing to run as a community space in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

I explore three types of inspiration for H.C. Andersen: in 1819, the 14 year old pauper catapults his physical self from Odense to Copenhagen via an early desire for personal fame, described by himself as “an utterly inexplicable drive;” secondly, Andersen transcends an often perplexing, wounding reality and his asexuality through his creativity and fairy tales; finally, he achieves the stimulus of travel via grants and avoidance of real estate commitments: he remains a renter of rooms his entire life while frequently inserting himself into the estates of the Danish nobility, reciprocating with entertainment: his readings and paper-cuts.

Between 2015 -2016, I started a local chapter of Transportation Alternatives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, as my personal climate crisis action in support of Harbor Ring's work to get a pedestrian/bike path on the Verrazanno Bridge. For this bike ride, we will visit local artist-run spaces in Bay Ridge and I will act as a Torch Ride Guide.

I am presenting at NWSA, on online messages and real life community within the context of research by Combahee River Collective and Adrienne Reich.

For Women's History Month, I’m presenting examples of my artist-organized work and ideas to connect Brooklyn and Staten Island - while hosting Kayla Santosuosso, community organizer.

My focus is on local, overlooked jazz history for my Jamaica House & Garden work, that is part of Jamaica Flux 2016.

"...This year, JamaicaFlux is expanding its focus to emphasize public engagement and contemporary art as a vehicle to examine and discuss solutions to critical issues in the community. The finished multidisciplinary and interactive works will be displayed in storefronts, parks, vacant lots, sidewalks, and other spaces in Jamaica, Queens..."

I am showing Sandbox, an art project involving conversations in a former sandbox in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

I am presenting Fjellerup i Bund & Grund and Ruth's Have at Land-Shape in Hanstholm, Denmark.

I was invited to contribute to Open Engagement's 100 Days Blog Project, by responding to the following question: "Who determines what is beneficial?" The blog project subsequently became the first OE publication: The Questions We Ask Together.

I've organized a panel for the NWSA conference, Asexual Love & Labor, and will also be presenting "The Passion And Occupation of Vivian Meyer."

Alyssa Casey is the 2014 artist-in-residence for Fjellerup i Bund & Grund (FBG) and I continue my food pop-up collaboration with Helle Alexandersen - from a seven course gourmet dinner in the summer without a kitchen, to an affordable winter herring lunch inside one of Fjellerup's historic buildings, Strandkroen.

A Hard Read - my collaboration with artist Michael Wilson - is part of tART@Flatbush Library.

I am showing Winter Garden in this tART show curated by Yulia Tikhonova.

My project exhibition Fjellerup i Bund & Grund is supported by Norddjurs Kommune and Fjellerup Kraemmerforening. Through working with fellow artists and locals, I activate sites I'd selected in a a coastal town of my childhood, now in a depopulated region.

My Edna & Margaret series (Edna St. Vincent Millay and Margaret Mead) is part of this tART exhibition in Dumbo.

Along with 10 other artists, I'm the recipient of a SAW commission and I will show work at El Safa in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

I've been invited to participate in the Bearden 100, a centennial tribute, and have chosen his work, "Imaginary Garden, Tribute to Marianne Moore."

I am showing a collaboration with Michael Wilson, "A Hard Read, the Personal Library." for this exhibition, curated by Yulia Tikhanova.

For this group exhibition, I am showing a recent series of photographs inspired by Paul Bowles and his hometown of Jamaica, Queens, combined with his writings from Morocco.

Once you nearly complete your round around the space, you come across Anna Lise Jensen’s pieces. A combination of photographs taken in Jamaica, Queens coupled with excerpts of Paul Bowles, a Jamaica native, writing from his time spent in Tangiers. Jensen’s pieces were an inspiring way to end the show. While the other artists provided the public with the different realities of homelessness, she offers ways to deal with urban abandonment and displacement; focusing specifically on Jamaica. By keeping her proposal on a local level, I think Jensen instilled a feeling of community and alliance, a feeling you should walk away with.

I've been awarded a grant from Manhattan Community Art Fund (distributed by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, LMCC) for my art project in community gardens.

I am both a guest and host for this inaugural, presenting "Visit #23" in the new Flux library.

Works by Hunter Photo Collective, curated by Hope Hilton

My collaboration with the K'ipay school in Bogota, Colombia, is part of the Unbroken exhibition, that will be shown at Denise Bibro Gallery in New York (June-July, 2020) and at GAIA Museum in Randers, Denmark (August, 2004).