statement

I make large scale drawings and drawing installations. My work is driven by a profound and personal fascination with the mark, and an unabashed love for the sensation of mark-making on a larger-than-life scale.

The drawings are not imitations of any aspect of nature, nor are they illustrations of a limited conceptual hypothesis. Instead they celebrate the peculiar properties of drawing as relics of the physical act of drawing.

As performance, they are rituals; spells.

bio

born: 1973, San Diego, California

education

New York Academy of Art, MFA, 2003
University of Pennsylvania, BA, 1994

selected awards/honors

NYFA Fellowship for Drawing, Printmaking, Book Arts, 2009
Aldrich Museum Radius Fellowship for Emerging Artists, 2009
A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship, 2008/2009
Drawing Center Viewing Program

selected publications

Genocchio, Benjamin. "Blurring Boundaries in Words and Swirls," New York Times, December 18, 2009.
Chernick, Myrel and Klein, Jennie. The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art. Demeter Press, Bradford, Ontario, 2011.
Butler, Sharon. "Neo-Maternalism: Contemporary Artists' Approach to Motherhood," The Brooklyn Rail, December 2009.
Franz, Jason, ed. International Drawing Annual 4, Manifest Press, Cincinnati OH 2009.

selected solo or two-person exhibits

(Ill) Mandalas, Solo(s) Project House, Newark, NJ, 2013
Party Dresses for the New Year, New You, chashama, New York, NY 2011
Get Free, AC Institute, New York, NY 2010
New Monuments to the AntiConcept, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2009

selected group shows

A.I.R. Gallery, Righteous Perpetrators, Brooklyn, NY 2012
S. Tucker Cooke Gallery, 4th Annual Drawing Discourse, UNC Asheville, Asheville, NC 2013
Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Separation Anxiety, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 2010
Clara Hatton Gallery, Drawing in the Expanded Field, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 2010