Artist Statement:
Through my work, I explore the myriad relationships between the natural world and our place within it. More specifically, I investigate deeper the social structures that communicate what is culturally 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.
Member AS220, Providence, Rhode Island
Member Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Curriculum Vitae
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
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