statement

These works emphasize gestural marks, abstract forms, and continuous lines. I focus on the connection between landscape and livelihood and reveal these themes through abstract representations of geographic hierarchies and political structures that dictate these realities. My collage techniques often involve cutting, tearing, ripping, re-assembling, xeroxing, then re-printing portions or fragments of the original images. I examine socio-spatial dialectics of place and identity, working simultaneously on a series of forms, gestures, and ideas that span multiple drawings.

Collage, de-collage, and photomontage are my starting points. The collage fragments come from a combination of my own photos, Fortune Magazines articles from the 1930s, and images from my own family history. These elements allow me to collapse time and space into a single two-dimensional image, a gesture that the pure act of drawing cannot provide. This enables my work to touch on aspects of time and space that otherwise could not be addressed.

bio

born: 1986, Columbus, Ohio

education

Cleveland Institute of Art, BFA, 2009
Ohio State University, Landscape Architecture (completed 1 year of 3 year masters program), 2010

selected awards/honors

Ohio Art League: Fall Juried Exhibition Award. Cultural Arts Center. Columbus, OH, 2012
Lombard Award: Dayton Visual Arts Center. Dayton, OH, 2012
Springfield Museum of Art. 1st Place Award: photography + printmaking. Springfield, OH, 2012

selected group shows

Art for Life 2012. Columbus Museum of Art. Columbus, OH, 2012
Art at the X. Xavier University Art Gallery. Cincinnati, OH, 2012
Hand-Pulled: Ohio Printmakers. Artspace Lima. Lima, OH, 2012
Consequences. Arc Studios & Gallery. San Francisco, CA, 2012 (catalog)