Aileen grew up on Long Island, New York. Her family moved around a couple of times before she spent much of her life in Port Jefferson.

Aileen’s work is influenced by contemporary portraiture and narrative photography. Within that framework, she is an artist invested in telling stories and narratives through her own lens. Aileen’s photographs include seemingly banal spaces presented in various experimental ideas, and close-ups to create unexpected juxtapositions which blend fantasy and fiction to create new narratives which inhabit liminal spaces. In thinking how a space can reflect certain ideas or concepts, new messages and meanings are evoked through the utilization of diptychs,  and layering, and photographs begin to rub together and formulate new habitations of spaces. Through her overlapping, contrasting, and connecting, she creates a greater collective sense of unknowingness.