statement

Drawing is my focus, and presenting my hand in the work is important to me. By representing the details of experience, the everyday, and the left over pieces, I feel that I can preserve my culture, family, memory, and experience. Most recently I've been visually and conceptually interested in exploring the patterns found in storm imagery. The devastation of recent natural disasters and the humanly unstoppable forces that created them both frighten and fascinate me. Ironically, images of storm mappings, waves crashing, and tornadoes twirling are often beautiful and mysteriously intriguing. I call it the beautiful monster affect. Piles of rubble are also prominent in my current work, both those literally found "after the storm" and those that I have constructed through collaged and invented imagery.

bio

born: 1971, Independence, Kentucky

education

University of Cincinnati, MFA, 2001
Northern Kentucky University, BFA, 1998

selected awards/honors

Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, 2012
Presidential Research Grant, St. Edward's University, 2011, 2009, 2008
Leading Women of Cincinnati in Arts & Entertainment, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2003
Artist Residency, Atlantic Center for the Arts, 2001

selected publications

Uppercase Magazine, Issue 11, Calgary Alberta, Canada, 2011
Studio Visit Magazine, Open Studios Press, Boston, Massachusetts, 2011
Drawing Structure: Conceptual & Observational Techniques, Kendall-Hunt publishing, 2009
International Drawing Annual 4, Manifest Creative Research Gallery & Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2009

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Beautiful Monsters, Flex Space, Austin, TX, 2012
Beautiful Monsters, University of Saint Mary, Leavenworth, KS, 2011
Vessels, St. Edward‚s University Fine Arts Gallery, Austin, TX, 2008
RECORDS AND ILLUSIONS, University Galleries on Sycamore, Cincinnati, OH, 2006

selected group shows

People's Gallery Exhibition 2012, EGRSO/Cultural Arts Division, Austin, TX, 2012
Summer Some Aren‚t, U·turn Art Space, Cincinnati, OH, 2010
Making Their Mark, Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR, 2008
Evidence and Residues: an Investigation of Contemporary Drawing, University Art Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, 2007