A R T I S T S T A T E M E N T
The geometry and structure of my work are artifacts from my training as a product and architectural designer. I have been channeling this design history and experience into my painting practice by exploring lines, bands, and grids as well as using materials normally associated with building construction and housewares. Rhythmic linear repetition and a subtle color palette are my meditation on the restoration and repair I search for in our splintered, suffering world. The surfaces are repeatedly built up and sanded, scraped, and burnished back as an homage to the making, death, and remaking of all life. I habitually return to square formats to honor our human desire for stability and order in our world of chaos and disruption. In my work, I am trying to document time and location by using materials gathered from the properties around where I am working. Inspired by the fragility and perseverance of the natural world I highlight the tension between the environment and humanity. My goal is to capture the essence of a place and to foster a visual contemplation on the beauty of wild land and our relationship to it. I see my work as core samples, layers of geology, terrain, and time.
E D U C A T I O N
2002 MID Master of Industrial Design, Rhode Island School of Design - Providence, RI
1995 BA Bachelor of Arts - Architecture, Yale University - New Haven, CT
S E L E C T E D E X H I B I T I O N S
2023 Solo Exhibition, Art Cinema Gallery @ Violet Crown - Santa Fe, NM
2023 Group Exhibition, REGALOS - Hecho Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
2021 Group Exhibition, Chiaroscuro - Santa Fe, NM
2020 Group Exhibition, ARTS THRIVE - Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
2020 Group Exhibition, Chiaroscuro - Santa Fe, NM
2019 Group Exhibition, ARTS THRIVE - Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
2019 Group Exhibition, UNBROKEN - The Webster Collection, Santa Fe, NM
2019 Solo Exhibition, Cerrillos Station Gallery, Cerrillos, NM
2018 Group Exhibition, Offroad Productions, Santa Fe, NM
2017 Group Exhibition, Offroad Productions, Santa Fe, NM
2015 Group Exhibition, Offroad Productions, Santa Fe, NM
2013 Group Exhibition, Patina Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2008 Group Exhibition, KOBO at Higo, Seattle, WA
2006 Two-person Exhibition, Victoria Price Contemporary Art + Design, Santa Fe, NM
2005 Solo Exhibition, Gallery Tokyo Eizo, Tokyo, JAPAN
2005 Group RISD New Mexico Alumni Exhibition, Santa Fe, NM
2002 Two-person Exhibition, The Diesel, Somerville, MA
2002 Group Exhibition, Studio Flo, Providence, RI
2001 Graduate ID Department Group Exhibition, Market House, Providence, RI
2001 Graduate Student Exhibition, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
2000 Solo Exhibition, Market House, Providence, RI
R E S I D E N C I E S
2023 Artist-in-Residence, Joya: arte + ecología, Vélez-Blanco, SPAIN
2022 Artist-in-Residence, The Arctic Circle Expedition, Svalbard Territory, NORWAY
2021 Two residencies were postponed because of Covid-19
2020 Artist-in-Residence, Montello Foundation, Montello, NV
2019 Artist-in-Residence, Resolana Farms, Coyote, NM
2019 Artist-in-Residence, Weir Farm Art Center, Wilton, CT
2009 Artist-in-Residence, Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, ME