statement

I am a artist and musician from Johnstown, Pennsylvania and currently an MFA candidate in Ohio University's Photography and Integrated Media program. With photography, video and multimedia installations, I focus on the mystification linked to rural Appalachia and the Rust Belt. Through television screens, broken radio signals, video feedback and light leaks, the work is situated in a (non)space hovering somewhere between media's distorted reality and the layers of history covered over and again by newer wallpaper. Ether turns to projection, but transcendence is fleeting if not imagined.

I am also a cofounder of My Idea of Fun, an art and music archive that features over 200 releases including several of his photography books, music videos and audio cassettes. My work has been exhibited and published internationally.

bio

born: 1984, Johnstown, Pennsylvania

education

Ohio University, MFA, 2014
Art Institute of Pittsburgh, BS, 2011

selected awards/honors

GSS Travel Grant, Ohio University, 2013
Black Bodies presentation, Society for Photographic Education, Lincoln, NE, 2013
Best in Show, FOTOFOCUS, CCAC, Cincinnati, OH, 2012
Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts, Project Grant, 2008

selected publications

The Only Ones // The Other One, My Idea of Fun, 2013
Notes from the Foundry, Spaces Corners, 2013
Something in the Way but Barely There, My Idea of Fun, 2011
The Daily Camera, My Idea of Fun, 2008-10

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Sound Structures, 709 Railroad Street, Johnstown, PA, 2008

selected group shows

Bad Weather, Athens International Film Festival, Athens, OH, 2013
Small Prints, Flash Forward Festival, Boston, MA, 2012
100 Portraits – 100 Photographers, FotoWeek, Washington DC, 2011
Wanderlust, New Wilmington Art Association, Wilmington, DE, 2011