Bio:

“One hand on a cigarette, I swear I still got some good moves left”

The Common Touch was born in a small town outside of Sacramento. She attended college at CSU Stanislaus where you can still find small pieces of hers scattered around the offices of various professors around campus. When she was 18 she went into working at a tattoo shop with the goal of becoming a body piercer, and then a more advanced body modification artist. She earned her first body piercing apprenticeship at age 19. Maybe fortunately a work accident led her to focus on drawing over piercing. She did not finish her body piercing apprenticeship, though she still worked in, around, and parallel to tattoo shops for years after. At age 21 she got her heart broken so badly that she left the time zone and moved to Texas. After a year in San Antonio, she decided to join a group of professional artist studios. Within her first year at the studios, she had been in two books, had several solo shows around the city, and had made some friends. The last two years in that studio group was a whirlwind. Ranging from being chosen as one of San Antonio’s representative artists for the city’s tricentennial celebration, getting on the wall of the McNay Museum of Art, and being part of multi artist projects for public art in NYC. That was also when she had her first solo show in NYC, did a group show in downtown Manhattan, and was prepping to do her first international show. Then 2020 happened. In early 2021 The Common Touch moved to rural Kansas, and promptly picked up a new hobby of sitting on the couch and sobbing. After 3 years and too many infections and too much nerve damage to count. Her friends stepped in and she relocated to a college town in Ohio’s Amish Country. She spends her time creating, playing video games, and spending time with her haunted cat Annabelle.