My work is trauma informed. For years I believed my art embodied the tension between restraint, power and the control I was convinced I had. I now realize those ideas distill down to the universal experience of loss and human vulnerability. My losses shape who I am and are expressed through the abstract sculpture and installations I create. The forms are often body+emotional stand-ins of me and represent significant events from my life. Interpreting the past through my work makes it bearable. As I process the palpable tension around loss, the physical act of making renders it bearable. Wrangling materials to control what is going on beneath the surface creates a tension between me and the work. The tactile, rigorous and meditative physicality of art making helps me meaningfully discharge these emotions through my hands.
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The descriptions and prices below are arranged in the same order as the images
Skin Deep
36″ x 22″ x 9″
$950
Home #46: Order/Chaos
204″ x 156″ x 120″
$6,000
Site specific installation for the 2019 MCADJerome Early Career Artist Exhibition
Echo Chambers
60″ x 76″ x 9″
$1,600
These bundles hold the memories of my relationship to family members. I have wrapped and knotted articles of their clothing with wet rolled paper twine as I recalled specific memories of our time together.
Echo Chamber T2
8″ x 5″ x 3″
$475
Decline and Fall
144″ x 444″ x 216″
$12,000
This project was more than a representation the scourge of the Emerald Ash Borer and the loss of ash trees in the landscape, it became a way for me to grieve and honor a friend I lost to suicide due to the isolation of Covid. It has become a receptacle of memories of my of my friend.