statement

I am fascinated by the ways in which we use images as shrines and tombs for our memories, how we desperately try to preserve our past and present. At times my work veers toward the sculptural and at others it is elementally photographic. The images included in this book seem to stray from work I have done dealing with my own history, but originate from a similar impulse. My mother tells me I used to lay on my stomach and watch ants in the grass. I remember catching June bugs off of her wild roses in a styrofoam cup, and finding box turtles, and waiting to hear the cicadas come out in summer, and getting tobacco juice from a grasshopper on my fingers, and catching lightning bugs in a pickle jar. I want my work, no matter what form it takes, to function as a mechanism for me to explore my memories, and as a catalyst for you to explore yours.

bio

born: 1982, Lawrenceburg, Indiana

education

Arizona State University, MFA, 2011
Northern Kentucky University, BFA, 2008

selected publications

Donít Take Pictures Magazine, Issue 2; Artist Feature and Interview, p. 32-35, March 2014
Square Magazine, Issue 4.4; Artist Feature, p. 28-37, Jan 2014

selected solo or two-person exhibits

A Photographic Survey of the American Yard, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, Massachusetts, 2015
In Search of Lost Time, Gallery360, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 2013

selected group shows

The Red Clay Survey, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama, 2014
2014 North Carolina Artists Exhibition, Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Raleigh, North Carolina, 2014
Formicidae, Roy C Moore Gallery, University of North Georgia, Oakwood, Georgia, 2014
Best of Nature Photography, Ordover Gallery, San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, California, 2013