Lillian is a Maryland native who lives between her home state and Rome, Italy. She is an interdisciplinary artist and educator and her most recent body of sculptural work is inspired by Scagliola, a composite substance that has been used since ancient times, known as imitation marble. Her sculptures are inspired by natural formations and archeological relics. Her photography is painterly and captures a version of reality where inanimate objects are elevated to creatures that live in this world too.

She holds a BA in Fine Arts from the American University of Rome, in Italy, where she graduated as Summa Cum Laude. There, the gained a classical approach to the arts as well as an appreciation for ancient art and relics, reflected in her current body of sculptural work.   In 2024, she received an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Art from the School of the Museum of Fine Art at Tufts University in Boston.

She is two-time recipient of the Tufts University Montague International Travel Grant, Graduate Student Agency Fund and was an Exhibitions Fellow at the Tufts University Art Galleries. Her work has been included in several recent group exhibitions, including shows at Tufts University Art Galleries in Boston, The Via Masina Gallery, in Rome, Italy, and the Autry Museum of the Southwest in Los Angeles, California. Her work was also featured in a solo exhibition at The Clubhouse Gallery in Los Angeles, California in 2017.

Artist statement  

My practice draws material, conceptual, and formal inspiration from the natural world. Growing up, the loss of a sibling led me to find solace in nature. My art practice is an ongoing attempt to reconnect with a sense of wonder and to embrace the beauty in the eventual decay and transformation of all things 

My work is rooted in both personal history as well as a deep connection to process and materiality. Previous to my career in the arts, I was an actor and spent 4 years performing improv. This experience rooted a sense of spontaneity and an intuitive approach in everything that I do, both in life and in art making. Sometimes I am inspired by forms found in architecture that I slowly obscure the form, while other times, I create from designs in nature. 

 While I enjoy working in multiple mediums, in my current body of sculptural work, my primary material inspiration is Scagliola. Scagliola is a 17th century, Italian, composite material comprised of plaster and dry pigments. Once cured, the surface is carved and then treated and sealed with wax and is known as imitation marble. I create a contemporary reimagining of the ancient material, where I build a world of brightly colored, stone-like surfaces and ruinous forms.

My photos come from a curiosity of the inanimate objects that surround us, and I source them from either second hand stores or create them. I believe in an invisible life force in all matter and my images are a mediation on objecthood. I chose photography as a medium because it presents an alternative reality, much like the one we exist in, yet in my work, I create the hierarchy of man and nature and what it means to be alive.