There are thin, quiet places where invisible forces and visible material collide. The surface of an empty page approached by a pencil and a thought, or a little wind meeting the world; nudging, persuading, diverting.

There is a potency at that barrier. Where, saddled with fuzzy lucidity, you might still lasso a daydream or tug at moments each afloat in their own way. A "tangle of matter and ghost," as Leonard Cohen mentioned a time or two.

I combine unspoken narrative and practical objects to merge two types of memory - the subtle mental process and that familiar record left upon physical material. As if preserving a glimpse of a situation as a prop to experience. In coercing material to bend to both memory and structure, the imagined is made tangible while romancing the real.

 

born: 1973, Winfield, KS

education

The Ohio State University, MFA, 2003
Emporia State University, BFA and BS in Psychology, 1997
Butler County Community College, AA and AS, 1993

selected awards/honors

Cirque du Soleil Community Support Grant for the Visual and Performing Arts, Las Vegas, NV, 2008
Jackpot Grant Award, Nevada Arts Council, 2007
New Glass Review 26, Corning Museum of Glass Corning, New York ˆ Work selected as one of one hundred innovative works in glass worldwide, 2005
Distinguished Alumni Award for Excellence in Professional Career , Butler County Community College, 2004

selected publications

Telegraph; Exhibition catalog; Essay by Dick Goody. Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester Hills; MI, 2008
Detroit: Telegraph; Lynn Crawford, Editor; pub. by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; Is. 2, Winter 2007
Sequence of Reversals; Hesse McGraw. REVIEW Architecture Annual, Kansas City, MO; September 2003
International Glass Art; Richard Yelle. Schiffer Publishing Ltd.; New York, NY; 2003

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Greg Kucera Gallery: the wind would find it out, Seattle, WA, 2009
Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery: Amidst; An exhibition of recent coercions, Las Vegas, NV, 2008
Clark County Government Center: Structuring the Invisible, Las Vegas, NV, 2007
Urban Institute for Contemporary Art: Threshold, Grand Rapids, MI, 2004

selected group shows

The Society of Arts and Crafts: Architecture/Structure in Contemporary Craft, Boston, MA, 2007
The Bank at the Urban Culture Project: In, Around, and Through; Observations and Interventions in the Built Environment, Kansas City, MO, 2005
Art Gallery of Windsor: Windsor Biennial, Windsor, Ontario, 2004
Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit: unCAGEd; the exploration of non-intention, Ann Arbor, MI, 2004