I make images that at any moment could fall apart. I am interested in the frail and threadbare line that lies between implication and the explicit. I work in the same way that an author revises text, constructs sentences, deconstructs sentences, edits words, and rubs out ideas. An author is fortunate to have only black words on white paper and nothing more. We don't see the skeleton of the author's work--we see the altered, fleshy body. The reader is not permitted to peak behind the curtain and see the machinery that sputters and heaves there are only black words on white paper. I am interested in allowing these remnants and bones to be unobstructed. The revision process that leads to the image is exposed, just as the strings that operate a marionette are sometimes glimpsed.

born:1973, Indiana

education

University of Louisville, BFA, 2009

selected awards/honors

Allen R. Hite Scholarship Award, University of Louisville, 2009-2010
Krempp Gallery Jury Award, Krempp Gallery Jasper, IN, 2008
Stark Gallery National Juried Exhibition, Finalist, Phoenix, AZ, 2007

selected publications

INDA: Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center 2007

selected solor or two-person shows

The 930 Gallery, Animal Nature/Human Nature, Louisville, KY, 2008