When we as humans stop to self reflect, we pause. If for only a split second or a prolonged period, this pause brings us to reconsider the condition of our surroundings ˆthe notion of what seems familiar conjoined with the present. I work with the idea that light cast into a space and upon specific characters within familiar places triggers self reflection, triggers that pause.

By using subtractive approaches within my charcoal drawings, I am able to more vividly create a sense of light through erasing. This is important because this eradication mimics the effects of cast light, specifically the intensity of its source. Light owns the capacity to eradicate space as well as maintaining the ability to shape, bend, and depict. The more detailed and realistically light is depicted, the more light becomes something of abstraction, lending itself to its beauty and daunting nature. I believe this character, in conjunction with monumentally scaled interiors, touches upon the sublime a feeling made evident when viewing contrasting notions of reality, the real beside illusion.

My work is meant to represent various different pauses, activated by a moment of the sublime (the daunting beauty of light‚s interaction with space, the real and the non-real, the mark and the non-mark).

born: 1982, Toledo, OH

education

Ohio University, MFA, 2008
Bowling Green State University, BFA, 2005

selected awards/honors

Sponsor Award, Ohio Art League, 2007
Medici Circle Purchase Award, Bowling Green State University, 2005
Thomas Hilty Drawing/Painting Scholarship Award, Bowling Green State University, 2004
Studio Art Centers International (SACI) Scholarship Award, Bowling Green State University, 2004

selected publications

Two in One Naestved International Mini Print Exhibition & Print Zero Studios Print Exchange V. Naestved, Denmark, 2008, ISBN: 978-87-992454-0-62008

selected solo or two-person shows

PAUSE, Ohio University Art Gallery, OH, 2008

selected group shows

32nd Bradley International Print & Drawing Exhibition, Bradley University, Peoria, IL, 2009
29th Annual Paper in Particular National Exhibition, Columbia College, Columbia, MO 2008
Ohio Art League‚s Annual Fall Juried Exhibition, Zanesville Art Center, Zanesville, OH 2007
Ohio Art League‚s 96th Annual Spring Juried Exhibition, Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery, Columbus, OH 2007