statement

In my current work, drawing serves as a direct and immediate method of exploring illusions of form, movement, and visual phenomena. These images, which contrast and interweave fluid surfaces with planar and linear elements, suggest elusive and shifting forms, astronomic and atmospheric events, and perceptual anomalies.

I'm deeply interested in pushing a material toward its limits, revealing its unanticipated and unique qualities. In these drawings, my initial gestural layers are the outcome of a responsive, durational engagement with an uncontrollably fluid medium, as I attempt to carve into it and give it form. Responding to these layers with more structured and depictive shapes, I seek to make images that are only just resolved, and that retain tensions between disparate elements. This process has yielded images of unidentifiable, ephemeral forms that appear in states of in flux.

bio

born: 1974, Augusta, Georgia

education

Lamar Dodd School of Art, The University of Georgia, MFA, 2004
Augusta State University, BFA, 1998

selected solo or two-person exhibits

New Paintings. Cohen Center for the Arts, Alfred University, Alfred, NY, 2013
Patriarchs, Matriarchs. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA, 2013
Transient Beings. Roz Steiner Gallery, SUNY GCC, Batavia, NY, 2012
Patriarchs, Matriarchs. Twin Kittens Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 2011

selected group shows

Exploding Boundaries: Explorations In Drawing. Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY 2013
LIVE/WORK. Twin Kittens Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 2012
Family Portraits. Claypool-Young Art Gallery, Morehead State University, 2012
63rd Rochester-Finger Lakes Juried Exhibition. Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, 2011