As
a freshman at the Maryland Institute College of Art I am constantly
inundated with new information and aware of different possibilities
that alter my ideas and understanding of what drawing is for me.
I extend formal elements and see how much I can get out of them.
The process of arranging my canvas starts intuitively, beginning
with washes of charcoal and blocks of paint. I create a mess to
work into and around. Working to define a space, I am sensitive
to the proportions of the paper and use the perimeter as the place
that crops the image one sees. My natural mark-making tendencies
form a continuity through my progression. I become most excited
when I disrupt these tendencies by introducing something new, like
a new medium, or idea that is foreign. This process allows me the
growth I need at this stage to investigate what can happen under
different circumstances.
born: 1986,
Columbus, Ohio
education
Maryland
Institute College of Art (present)
selected awards/honors
Merit, Fanny B. Thalheimer Scholarship, 2005
Merit, Scholastics National Portfolio Award,
2005
Merit, Full Tuition Trustees Scholarship to Columbus
College of Art and Design, 2005
Merit, National Art Honor Society Scholarship, 2005
selected publications
Columbus
Dispatch, 2005
Out Look Magazine, 2005
C (columbus) Magazine, 2005
Columbus Parent, 2005
selected group shows
Fall Juried Exhibition, Ohio Art Ledge, Columbus
Ohio, 2005
Elastik Scholastik, Mahan Gallery, Columbus,
Ohio, 2005
Small Works, Roy G Biv, Columbus, Ohio, 2003