Artist Statement

Through my work, I explore the myriad relationships between the natural world and our place within it. More specifically, I aim to investigate the social structures that communicate what is considered home and to whom it is entitled.

I am interested in the function of absence and how it impacts the physical and emotional presence of an environment. Consider how many times have we felt the lack of something more heavily than its opposite presence? Moreover, as boundaries define absence to presence, shape is derived; what, then, are our responses to it?

I am further interested in the value of truth to falsity: what makes a memory valid? At what point does the absence of information create new stories? How frequent does a lie need to be told to be believed? How do our lives compound over generations and the trauma our foreparents experienced, and how does that information relate to the present moment? And for documented history, from whose perspective are we assigning something value? How can we determine the myth from perspective, and how much does it even matter?

Most often, my work is made on and with paper, but I will work with any media that fits to the ideas I seek to explore. I prefer to work in a restricted palette or material in response to the American maxim of blind consumerism. And while simplicity is a common aim in material or palette, my work tends to be obsessive and ritualized.

Education

2003- Baccalaureate of Arts,
Art History Research
Near-minor: African American Studies;
emphasis on social concerns
regarding Other in society
Eastern Washington University,
Cheney, Washington

2002 – Baccalaureat of Fine Arts, (5 year):
Alternative Media, Painting, Ceramics;
emphasis on Other in society,
anti-art and re/deconstruction
Eastern Washington University,
Cheney, Washington

2001 – Gallery Internship:
Lorinda Knight Gallery
Spokane WA

Curriculum Vitae

2025

Pawtucket Arts Collaborative
Silver
Pawtucket, Rhode Island

2023-2024

Self-directed Residency Project:
passages: A year-long study
United States and Canada, various locations

2009

• Gallery Gray
  Tilting at Windmills
  Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery
  A Book About Death, Event Project by Matthew Rose
  Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, NY
• E.H. Hereford University Center Gallery
  Fluxhibition 3
  E.H. Hereford University Center, Arlington, Texas
• Open Concept Gallery
  Digital Ritual
  Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan

2007

• International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction
  White on White
  6955 Pinon Street, Fort Worth, Texas

2006

• Lauryn Taylor Gallery
  Holiday Invitational: Holiday Lights
  Between Ocean and Seventh on San Carlos, Carmel-by-the-Sea
• Pacific Grove Art Center
  Lensless , Pinhole Photography Invitational
  568 Lighthouse Ave, Pacific Grove, CA
• Lauryn Taylor Gallery
  2nd Annual Juried Exhibition: Elementals
  Between Ocean and Seventh on San Carlos, Carmel-by-the-Sea,  CA
• Sebastapol Center for the Arts
  Juried Exhibition: Art & Language
  678 Depot St., Sebastapol, CA

2005

• Winfield Gallery
  Sculpture Indoors
  On Dolores between 7th & Ocean · Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA

2003

• Art Is Gallery
  Double Ex-Poseur
  W 1021 1st Ave · Spokane, WA

2002

• Moses Lake Museum
  2002 County Line Exhibition Series
  228 West Third Avenue · Moses Lake, WA
• EWU Gallery
  Repeat Offenders
  Eastern Washington University · Cheney, WA
• Flour Mill
  Five to One: Testosterone Intolerant
  W 621 Mallon Ave · Spokane, WA
• E Gallery
  Shift in Perspective: Feminism in the 21st Century
  W 410 Sprague Ave · Spokane WA

Publications, Awards & Honors

• White on White – Exhibit Catalogue
  Touchon, Cecil. Ontological Museum Publications, Fort Worth, Texas, 2009. 
• Article for Holiday Lites
  Monterey County Herald, GO!
  Thursday Nov. 23-29, 2006; Page 25
• HomeStyle by-the-Sea
  Re: Ones to Watch , Artist Profile
  Spring 2005; Page 79-80
• Spokesman Review
  Re: Emerging Artists
  Thursday, August 7, 2003; Page D8
• The Pacific Northwest Inlander
  Re: Double Ex-Poseur , Inlander Picks
  Thursday, August 7, 2003; Page 65
• Spokesman Review
  Re: Double Ex-Poseur
  Thursday, July 10, 2003; Page D8
• Winner: African American Essay Contest
  Essay: Past Tense Past; Past Tense Future
• Spokesman Review
  Re: BFA Graduation Show
  Thursday, May 16, 2002; Page D3
• The Easterner
  Re: BFA Graduation Show
  Volume 23, Issue 28, May 23-29, 2002
• Ruby Gold Scholarship
  Eastern Washington University
• The Local Planet
  Re: Shift in Perspective
  Article Published Volume 2, Issue 14, April 12-18, 2001