statement

For any landscape, my goal is  to make something pretty but unsentimental. To my mind, that combination tends to consist of pairing opposites, and where opposites meet, interesting things happen. I try to balance elements to a point at which they cancel each other out, and suspend the viewer in a state of potential for a moment before he interprets things one way or the other. For the viewer, I hope my work is like the cave in The Empire Strikes Back, "What's in there?" "Only what you take with you."

bio

born: 1984, Salem, Oregon

education

Cranbrook Academy of Art, MFA, 2012
Portland State University, BA, 2009

selected awards/honors

Best in Show, 24th Annual Juried Show, Las Vegas Contemporary Arts Center

selected publications

Las Vegas Weekly, CAC's Latest Juried Exhibit Suggests the Direction of our Species, Dawn-Michelle Baude, May 22, 2013, Las Vegas, Nevada
All-American, Volume Twelve, A Book of Lessons, Bruce Weber "Living Art In Detroit: A Tale of Two Cities Part 1 Cranbrook Academy of Art," New York, NY Little Bear Press, 2012

selected group shows

 24th Annual Juried Show, Contemporary Arts Center, Las Vegas, NV, 2013
Day On Fire: Apocalypse in Contemporary Art, Slocumb Galleries, Eastern Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, 2012
Color, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY, 2012
Still Life: Objects of Wonder, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR, 2012