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The Positive and Negative Aspects Involved in the
Production and Mechanization of Pheromones Graphite, Gouache on Paper 8x10” 2008
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I am interested in depicting the moment when the corporeal and the spiritual/mental negotiate concession. Fusing memory, experience and imagination with visual story-lines stemming from pseudo-science, art history, science fiction, folklore, language and literature I compose plots and visual narrative paradoxes progressing from an initial idea or mark. Drawing seems an appropriate method to enact this sequence as it is a malleable way to convey information. It allows me to be historically inaccurate, to meld themes of the documented with the absurd and scatological. I experiment with how text and titles may change an image, how they can feed each other while not describing a fixed meaning. I am particularly drawn to words whose meaning may shift based on the context in which they are used. I often work with language related to geology, natural history and landscape that differ from the literal or linguistic meanings. Through amassment and installation my work invites the comparison and combination of different premises to create compound links based on groupings and the associations that they may incite. The context of each drawing’s plot-line may change based on the other work, words or objects it is grouped with, creating divergent narratives and hypotheses. These combinations look to contribute to and challenge the already rich and long-lived traditions of pictorial story telling. I am involved in creating a complex visual experience rooted in inventing and posing questions rather than eliciting answers.
EDUCATION
2005 MFA Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI
Collegiate Teaching Certificate, Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning at Brown University, Providence RI
2003 BFA Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City MO
ORGANIZATIONS / VENUES
StudioFuse Blog and Studio Community - Founding Co-Director studiofuse.wordpress.com
Pierogi 2000 Gallery Flat Files, Brooklyn, NY
Viewing Program and Slide Registry, Drawing Center, New York, NY
Irving Sandler Artists File Online, Artists Space, New York, NY
EXHIBITIONS
2010 Sub Terrain Curated by Andrew Thompson, Work Gallery, Ann Arbor MI
The Business of Aura Curated by Kelsey Harrington, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
Wassaic Summer Festival Show Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2009 Will It Happen? Curated by Kelsey Harrington, Elga Wimmer Gallery New York, NY
Word Up Group Show with Ghost of Dream, Greg Hopkins, Colby Bird, Jeff Barnett- Winsby Curated by Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
New American Paintings Exhibition in Print, North Eastern Edition 2009, Open Studio Press
Morsel Remains Group Exhibition Long Island City, NY
Related Process 579 Broadway New York, NY
2008 Dialect curated Adam Eckstrom, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
The Sieve Go for a loop Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Everybody Only Meow Wolf Art Space, Santa Fe, NM
Science Fair Rock, Paper, Scissors Gallery, Oakland, California
2007 Turning Points Curated by Andrew Thompson, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
2006 Science Fair Forum Gallery Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, MI
RISD Biennial NYC 2006, Curated by Robert Storr, Exit Art New York, NY
Chapter III – Bueno Byes & Frito Pies AD Collective Gallery Santa Fe, NM
2005 Life and Limb Curated by David Humphrey Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
Providential RISD Painting MFA 2005, Supreme Trading, Brooklyn, NY
MFA Exhibition RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2004 Featherweight Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
RISD Painters/ Brown Writers Sol Koffler Grad Gallery at RISD, Providence, RI
Pulp Curated by Steve Orlando Sol Koffler Grad Gallery at RISD, Providence, RI
Postcards From the Edge Brent Sikkema, New York, NY
2003 Grad Painting Show Sol Koffler Grad Gallery at RISD, Providence, RI
BFA Exhibition H&R Block Space, Kansas City, MO
The Body Lucy Pistilli, Rachel Frank, and Amanda Lechner, Destination Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2002 Drawing Mania Destination Gallery, Kansas City MO
Head or Gut: Prints of Persuasion KCAI Print Gallery Kansas City MO
Object Resonance, Curated by Lester Goldman KCAI Painting Gallery, Kansas City MO
Carnival/Carnival, Curated by Lester Goldman KCAI Painting Gallery, Kansas City MO
2000 Untitled, Pod Space, Santa Fe NM
Effusion, Group Show, Plan B Gallery, Santa Fe NM
1999 Monothon 13, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe NM
AWARDS
2005 RISD Graduate Award of Excellence
2003-2005 RISD Graduate Academic Honors
2004-2005 RISD Graduate Fellowship, Innaugural Curator of the Artur Loeb Design Science Collection
2003-2005 RISD Graduate Painting Fellowship
1999-2003 KCAI Deans List and Academic Honors
1999-2003 KCAI Merit Scholarship
1998-1999 Internship SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe NM
