statement

Through drawing, I compile separate moments of time and thought in layers that accumulate to become a portrait of a complex individual whose body is expressing their interior self through minute subtleties of posture, gesture, and facial expression.

My models are sometimes professionals, often friends, and occasionally even strangers. They pose for me in my studio, where they may feel foreign and uncomfortable, or in their own home, where they are intimately enfolded by their familiar surroundings. The model's ease or unease in this situation, as well as their independent thoughts and feelings, are expressed through their body language in either fleeting or gradual changes. These subtle nonverbal clues are what I search for as I work. Perhaps a fleeting interruption in the rise and fall of breath, or the disappearance of a bone that was once pressing against the skin – I record these shifts, instabilities, and movements over time by intuitively varying the clarity of the image and refinement of my mark.

I believe that reality is fundamentally immeasurable: the model lives and changes, and should not be frozen in time, and I, the artist, approach each individual with fluctuating perceptions. Therefore I depict my subjects as economically as possible, leaving ambiguities in edges and areas that are underdeveloped to suggest the slight movements and gestures which typify each individual.

bio

born: 1973, Rochester, New York

education

University of Cincinnati, MFA, 2005
Columbus College of Art & Design, BFA, 1996

selected awards/honors

University of North Carolina Asheville: Scholarly & Creative Achievement Award, 2014
Manifest Creative Research Gallery, The Manifest Prize: Semi-Finalist, 2012
Elmhurst Art Museum: First Place, 2011
Fontbonne University Fine Arts Gallery: Second Place, 2011

selected publications

Manifest Creative Research Gallery, 7th International Drawing Annual, 2012
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The Diane & Dandy Besser Collection, 2007
Mobile Museum of Art, Creative Imaginings, The Tullman Collection, 2006
Arnot Art Museum, Re-Presenting Representation VII, 2005

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Southern Ohio Museum, Pliable Observations, Portsmouth, Ohio, 2013
Asheville Area Arts Council, The Artery, Tangible Identities, Asheville, North Carolina, 2012
University of Mississippi, Gallery 130, Fluctuating Perceptions, University, Mississippi, 2010

selected group shows

North Carolina Museum of Art, Line, Touch, Trace, Raleigh, North Carolina, 2014
Evoke Contemporary, Re-Presenting the Nude II, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2012
Springfield Museum of Art, Fine Lines, Springfield, Ohio, 2012
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Contemporary American Realism Biennial, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 2010