statement

My work primarily explores consumerist culture through modes of accumulation, hoarding, and collecting. I use drawing as a form of documentation; cataloguing and archiving my life through detailed images of memories, events, and objects. In my most recent body of work, In Ruins, I illustrate imaginary piles of rubble, apocalyptic in nature, symbolizing the debris left after natural and man-made disasters.

bio

born: 1971, Covington, Kentucky

education

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

selected awards/honors

Finalist, Hunting Art Prize, 2013
Finalist, Dave Bown Projects - 5th Semiannual Competition, 2012

selected publications

International Drawing Annual 7. Cincinnati, Ohio: Manifest Press, 2012
The End, Cantanker Magazine. Austin, Texas: 360 Press Solutions p. 34-35, 2012.
Labour Instensive, Uppercase Magazine, Issue 11. Calgary, Alberta, Canada: p. 42-50, October 2011
Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 16. The Open Studios Press p. 76-77, 2011

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Folio Gallery, Texas Tech University: In Ruins Lubbock, TX, 2013
Robert E. & Martha Hull Lee Gallery, Hiestand Galleries, Miami University: In Ruins, Oxford, OH, 2012
The Museum of Art, University of Southern Mississippi: In Ruins, Hattiesburg, MS, 2012
Flex Space Gallery, Pump Project Satellite: Beautiful Monsters, Austin, TX, 2012

selected group shows

Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University: Making Their Mark, La Grande, OR, 2008
University Art Gallery, Indiana State University: Evidence and Residues, Terre Haute, IN, 2007
University Galleries on Sycamore: RECORDS AND ILLUSIONS, Cincinnati, OH, 2007
Arts + Literature Laboratory Gallery: TEXTURE, New Haven, CT: 2006