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Artist's Statement

Liminality is central to my work.  I constantly explore connections, transformations, boundaries, paradox, and the fuzzy edges of definitions.  Sometimes this manifests in the medium (such as the sculpted canvases), but more often it comes through in the concept (as in Identity Tapestry).  Recently I am exploring the connections which we share as human beings and the definitions we place on ourselves and each other.  This draws me to icons, narratives, social labels... all the ways we define things and try to explain them to one another.

These explorations take me over a great deal of conceptual territory.  I am a multifaceted person with a wide array of experiences to draw from and my work is accordingly multi-faceted.  Like many contemporary artists, I do not limit my materials. I choose what best suits the concept, historical reference and sensory experience for the piece.  Nor do I restrict my work to a self-brand-style.  That said, certain threads weave back and forth through my work over the course of years.


Process is very important to me.  Sometimes it is an internal exploration, sometimes it involves research.  In the case of interactive work, part of that research is talking to strangers to get perspectives and reactions outside my own sphere.  I consider it part of making a truly participatory piece. 


My ideal is creating work which is not only visually engaging, but which gets people to think new thoughts about things that may be background noise, to challenge the defined.  I strive to make art which is a mirror with something new in it- if only because of the perspective. To that end my work is almost always deliberately open-ended.  I want people to engage in it with their own story, to see their own world, but in a new way.  It is not about imposing my own view so much as it is about inspiring a dialogue.

 
 

From the Studio (artist's Blog)

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Education

Diploma, Harvard-Westlake, LA, Ca. May, 1995.
best possible score in all AP courses: Art History, Studio Art, and English Language. National Merit Finalist.

BA in History of Religions, May 1999 Earlham College, Richmond IN.

Diploma in Fine Arts, Dec 2002 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA.

MA in Integrated Arts Education, May 2004, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH.

 

Upcoming Group Exhibitions

Momentum, the WCA 40th anniversary show (juror Rita Gonzalez Associate Curator, LACMA), Los Angeles Art Association, Los Angeles, CA. February 17 to March 2, 2012, reception on Friday, February 24, 2012, 6–9pm

Kinetic Text, curator Joella March (no relation), LA, CA. Spring 2012. *more soon*

 

Exhibitions

12/2011 Snap to Grid, LACDA, Los Angeles, CA
10/2011 You First, Orange County Contemporary Center for the Arts, Santa Ana, CA.
5-6/2011 Play, Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY.
6/ 2011 Harmony for Peace Foundation's Peace Fine Art Competition, Chelsea Art Museum, NYC, NY.
3-4/ 2011 "Interwoven: Icons and Ideas" as part of the Transcultural Exchange show, Hamden Gallery, UMass Amherst, MA.
4/2011 Here there and Everywhere, Transcultural Exchange Center, Boston, MA.
3/2011 Wide Open2, (juror, Nathan Trotman, curator at the NYC Guggenheim) BWAC, Brooklyn, NY. *received Best Installation award*
10/ 2009 Scales, Treasure Island Music Festival, San Francisco, CA.
4/ 2009 New Work, Semi-Solo show (included a collaborative piece) at the Rathbone Gallery, Sage Colleges, NY.
4/2009 Exquisite Corps, International Collaborative Piece shown by Constantin Severin at the Biblioteca Bucovine Suceava, Romania
4/2009 Here, There and Everywhere: Anticipating the Future of Art, The Transcultural Exchange Center's exhibition/conference, Boston, MA.
9/2008 Identity Tapestry, TI Music Festival
4/26/2008 Alchemy an installation of "Identity Tapestry", Cellspace, San Francisco, CA.
10/07-11/2007 Shaman, Gallery One, San Francisco, CA.
7-8/2007 Works on Paper Gallery One, San Francisco, CA.
12/2/2005 The Postcard Show, The Lab, San Francisco, CA.
9/2003 Huis op de bodem van de zee AKI University, Enschede, theNetherlands.
11/2002 Iconoclasm Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
2000 Ceramic Sculpture Show School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
 

Awards

Sustainable Arts Foundation Award (7/2011)

Best Installation, BWAC Wide Open2 show. Awarded by Nathan Trotman, curator at the NYC Guggenheim. (3/2011)

Honorable Mention, London International Creative Competition. (2010)

 

Press

Romanian Media including Adevarul, News Bucovina (1) , News Bucovina (2), Evenimentul (April 2009)

Interview and cover of Mission Arts Monthly (3/05) link to interview (text version), link to pdf version

 

Online Press

Against the Grain "Identity Tapestry", Posted by Koop, 10/1/ 2008. Link: http://againsthegrainblog.com/?p=93   

Make Magazine, 4/22/2008

 

Art Affiliations

Member of The Drawing Center's Viewing Program (since 9/04/07), The Drawing Center, New York, NY.

Member of Artmesh.org (since 2007)- an invitation-only international online group for artists and members of the arts community.

Resident Artist at Gallery One (2007-2008)- Gallery One, San Francisco, CA.

Member of Rhizome

 

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