statement

My work explores how the world unfolds around us.
Since moving back to New Orleans after years away at college,
I have been particularly struck by the open spaces left in transition
that are so prevalent in the post-Katrina landscape.
I work from direct observation to get the most truth from the restless,
roving human eye and create a map of time as I document the experience
of being in that environment. Emptied of human life, these vistas speak
for their inhabitants or lack therof. I invite the viewer to examine these
sights that seem to exist outside the speed of modern society.
Time stands still and nature begins to reclaim the human-made.
Often overlooked, these environments become statements about the
inextricable link between culture and nature,
our past and inevitably our future.

bio

born:1986, Baltimore, Maryland

education:

Brandeis University, BA, 2009

selected awards/honors

Full Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, 2010
Mitchell Sipron Memorial Prize for Painting, Brandeis University, 2009

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Foot-a-Night, Fair Folks and a Goat, New Orleans, LA, 2011

selected group shows

CATAPULT, T-Lot, New Orleans, LA, 2010
Multispecies Salon: Hope in Blasted Landscapes, Ironworks Gallery, New Orleans, LA, 2010
No Dead Artists: National Juried Exhibition, New Orleans, LA, 2010
Alumni Invitational Exhibition, New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, New Orleans, LA, 2010