Born in Rome, Italy, in 1974, and moved to New York City in 1988. Studied figure drawing at the Art Students League of New York, and then attended Brown University in Providence, RI, from where she graduated in 1995 with a BA in Visual Arts and Italian Studies. From 1995 to 1999, she returned to the Art Students League where she assisted Charles Hinman’s mixed media class for two years, and won a Merit Scholarship, which allowed her to study full time with Bruce Dorfman. Under Hinman and Dorfman’s guidance she moved away from painting, and experimented with various materials … Continued