statement

This work reflects an accumulation of thoughts, movements and marks that build upon each other and create new terrain.  Emotions blow through, reshaping inner landscapes--the ending can't be seen from the beginning.  I try to remain a maze to myself when drawing and to create images that exist on the border between figuration and abstraction.  I use traditional materials of pen and ink combined with newer materials of video and vinyl to investigate the material object's transition from value to obsolescence.

bio

born: 1976, Sevierville, Tennessee

education

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, MFA, 2010
University of New Orleans, BFA, 2002

selected awards/honors

Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship Award, State of Delaware, 2011
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Fellowship Award, PAFA, 2010
Carter Foster Juried Merit Award,  The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, 2008

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Deluge, Fellow Show, Mezzanine Gallery, Wilmington,DE, 2011
Bind/Bound, Studio:Christensen, Philadelphia, PA, 2011
Refiguration, New Wilmington Arts Alliance, Wilmington, DE, 2009
Open/Current, Newark Arts Alliance, Newark, DE, 2007

selected group shows

INOUTIN, curated by Michael Moore and Paul Hanamaka, MBN Studio, Philadelphia, PA, 2011
Fresh!2010, Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2010
I Can't Get You Out of My Mind, curated by Hiro Sakagughi, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2010
Fantastical Imaginings, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE, 2008