Bio
Education: BFA, The Cooper Union School of Art, NYC, NY; MFA, The California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA. Exhibitions: The Drawing Center, NY; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; Art in General, NY; Marlborough Contemporary, NY; The Bindery Projects, MN; CSS Bard Galleries/ Bard College, NY; Grant Wahlquist Gallery, ME; South Hill Park Arts Center, Bracknell, UK; Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Paris, France. Awards: Art Matters Grant, Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant; Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, ME; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Program, NY; AIRspace Program, Abrons Arts Center, NY; Shandanken at Storm King Art Center, NY. Bibliography: Art Forum, The Wall Street Journal, Time Out NY, The New York Times.
Personal Statement
My interdisciplinary art practice is inspired by philosophical conflicts in our everyday encounters with images, objects and information. They are an exploration of personal and cultural economies of knowledge through familiar artifacts such as recipes, internet message boards, book pages. Through my work, I draw attention to how cultural material is consumed, read and re-presented in order to articulate meaning. At the foundation of my work is a scrutiny of information’s conceptual and hierarchical value.
In my teaching, I am a firm advocate for a close and slow critical examination of students' work and research. This research includes a thoughtful consideration (and interrogation) of how our subjective experience informs our world view and is implicated in a much larger historical and contemporary social context.
Disclaimer: All work represents the views of the INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS & AUTHORS who created them, and are not those of the school or museum of the Art Institute.
