statement

My work considers how portrait and figural paintings have served for centuries as key sites for negotiating issues of identity. In part my interest is historical: I study the pictorial, technical, and narrative conventions of Western art to explore the ways in which primarily male artists have imagined the body. Taking up this tradition, I investigate and reshape these conventions, developing routes into the past that encourage contemporary debate and reevaluation.

bio

born: 1981, New Haven, CT

education

University of Connecticut, MFA, 2008
Coker College, BA, 2004

selected awards/honors

Alliance of Artist Communitiesí Midwestern Voices & Visions Award, 2011
Tanne Foundation Award, 2010
Alice C. Cole '42 Fellowship in Studio Art, Wellesley College, 2008

selected publications

Spencer-Stonestreet, Tracy. International Review of African American Art; Emerging Artists Issue. Hampton, VA: Spring 2015
The Drawing Center. The Intuitionists (catalogue). New York, NY, 2014.
Barnett, Susan. Arts/Industry: Collaboration and Revelation (catalogue). John Michael Kohler Arts Center: Sheboygan, WI. pp 262-263, 2014

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Kruger Gallery: Inheritance, Chicago, IL, 2016
Greymatter Gallery: After Image, Milwaukee, WI, 2015
University of Wyoming Visual Arts Building Gallery: Premortem, Laramie, WY, 2014
Porter Butts Gallery: Significant Other, Madison, WI, 2014

selected group shows

Yeelen Gallery: What's Inside Her Never Dies, Miami, FL, 2015
Sirona Fine Art: The Artistís Gaze: Seeing Women in the 21st Century, Hallandale Beach, FL, 2015
The Drawing Center: The Intuitionists, New York, NY, 2014
John Michael Kohler Arts Center:Arts/Industry Collaboration and Revelation, Sheboygan, WI, 2014