artist statement

I am a multi-disciplinary artist whose work harnesses moments at the edge of knowledge as generative spaces for re-thinking. I use the limits of knowledge and representation to play with alternative ways of understanding; one’s whose internal logic is counter to greed, violence, and ownership. My work attempts to peel back layers of assumption, habit and bias, and act as rosetta stones to read the world in a different way. Drawing from the physical nature of perception, like lenses and perspective, to object-oriented-ontology and mysticism, I make things to see them differently.

My work considers landscape as a process not a thing. I think of landscape as an expanded concept that considers its always changing entanglements with late capitalism, ecological devastation, popular culture, science, myth, images, and imagination, and how that mediates our understanding of it. Through hare-brained tactics and naïve experiments, I misuse tools that are conventionally used to represent landscape, like the camera and the microphone and the ritual. These kinds of gestures obstruct legibility but also surface new forms of reading. The disruption of what we expect to see or experience in a landscape destabilizes its role in perpetuating colonial settler and late capitalist ideologies whose hierarchies create a division between the subject and the landscape.

IS A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ARTIST LIVING AND WORKING OUT OF WALLA WALLA, WASHINGTON

         
             

☞ CV

Education

2015     MFA in Printmaking, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
2015     Graduate Certificate in Book Arts, University of Iowa, Center For The Book
2013     MA in Printmaking, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
2012     Bachelor of Arts, Double Major: Printmaking and Creative writing, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon

Professional Activity

2021 - present    Visiting Assistant Professor in Printmaking and Book Arts, – Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington
2018 - 2020    Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor in Printmaking and Book Art – University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana
2016 - 18    Richardson-Spica Fellow in Printmaking and Photo – Interlochen Center For The Arts, Interlochen, Michigan
2016    Studio Instructor for Sculpture – Young Artists Institute, Ashland, Oregon
2015/16    Adjunct Professor in Sculpture, Photography, Sound Design, Video – Southern Oregon University, Oregon
2015    Studio Instructor for Sculpture and drawing – Young Artists Institute, Ashland, Oregon
2015    Adjunct Professor in Printmaking – Mt Mercy University, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
2013    Gallery Director – University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

Solo + 2 Person Exhibitions

2023   EARTHBOUND – Carnation Contemporary, Portland, Oregon 
2022    As Above, So Below – Carnation Contemporary, Portland, Oregon
2021    Cups to Help People – Central Art, Medford, Oregon
2017    THE BIG GAME – Platte Forum, Denver, Colorado
2016    GOLD FEVER – Rezlaff Gallery, Ashland, Oregon
2015    You – Ana Mendieta Gallery, Iowa City
2014    YOU ARE A MANIAC AND YOU NEED TO START CHANGING YOUR LIFE - Ana Mendieta Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa
2014    I want to always be okay with always loving you – Charles Ray Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa
2013    I don’t know – The Ark, Iowa City, Iowa
2013    That’s a big dream – Ana Mendieta Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa
2012    We love sound or the sensation of touch at a distance – Retzlaff Gallery, Ashland, Oregon
2011    Off – Retzlaff Gallery, Ashland, Oregon
2010    Send me a sentence – Thorndike Gallery, Ashland, Oregon

Group Exhibitions

2022    Essay Daily, Advent 2022, Station X
2022    Time | Creature | Portal | Self, Sheehan Museum, Walla Walla, WA
2022    Over The Line, Lewis Clark State College Center for the Arts, Lewiston, ID
2022    Blind Date, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, Oregon
2021    New England Review, Stations of the Cross, Vol. 42, No. 3, 2021
2021    Dispersed Yet Together, The Foundation For Estonian Arts and Letters, New York City, NY
2021    Tongue In Cheek, Chicago Printmaker’s Collective, Chicago, IL
2021    Impulse, Tallinn Drawing Triennial, ARS Projects Space, Tallinn Estonia
2021    Oregon Fringe Festival – Ashland, Oregon
2020    Bits n’ Pieces (Put Together To Present A Semblance Of The Whole) – Public Storage – Fayetteville, Arkansas
2019    Faculty Exhibition - University of Notre Dame, Indiana
2019    Muhu Print - Muhu, Estonia
2019    TOO BAD WE’RE NOT CAPITALISTS - University of Notre Dame, Indiana
2019    Glitches And Defects - Millepiani Exhibition Space, Rome, Italy
2019    Experimental Film and Video - CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
2018    Pressing Matters – Whiteaker Printmakers, Emerald Art Center, Springfield, Oregon
2018    Ink, Pres, Repeat – University Galleries at William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey
2017    Fresh Ink – Wonder Fair Gallery, Lawrence, Kansas
2017    GET’CHA HEAD IN THE GAME – The Naughton Gallery at Queen’s University, Belfast, Ireland
2017    Air Hockey On Ice – Art Shanty, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2016    Shapes of Curiosity – Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, Oregon
2016    College Collective – Genesee Center For The Arts And Education, Rochester, New York
2016    The World Between: Encounters with Print, Through Print – SGCI Print Conference, Portland, Oregon
2016    Near Mint – Land Gallery, Portland, Oregon and Joe Bar, Seattle, Washington
2014    X-Acto X-Acto – Ana Mendieta Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa
2014    PICK A VEGETABLE MAKE IT BIG – Drewelowe Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa
2014    Art Is Our Last Hope – Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
2014    ¿Qué hay arriba? - Galería Jesús Gallardo, Guanajuato, México
2014    What’s the Wave? – Charles Ray Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa
2014    U of Iowa Graduate Printmakers – Steven Vail Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa
2013    Ritual - 110 Church Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2013    Push - Bodine Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa
2013    And this is why - Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Murray, Kentucky
2013    And repeat – Ana Mendieta Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa
2013    Character Profile - Root Division, San Francisco, California
2012    Crossing Shapes and Lines in Silent Gestures - Millsap College Lewis Art Gallery, Jackson, Mississippi
2012    Additional Experiments - Drewelowe Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa
2012    Blackfish Award Show - Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon

Curatorial Projects

2019    TOO BAD WE’RE NOT CAPITALISTS - University of Notre Dame, Indiana
2018    Present - Rideshare Gallery (a mobile gallery on the front license plate of a car) – South Bend, Indiana
2014    PICK A VEGETABLE, MAKE IT BIG – Drewelowe Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa
2014    Almost There – Drewelowe Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa
2014    ¿Qué hay arriba? – Galería Jesús Gallardo, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, México
2014    ¿What’s The Wave?  - Charles Ray Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa

Film Festivals + Performances

2015    YOU - Southern Colorado Film Festival, Alamosa, Colorado
2014    11 Tiny Performances – Trumpet Blossom, Iowa City, Iowa
2014    Talking The Ziggurat – Englert Theatre, Iowa City, Iowa

Portfolio Exchanges

2021     Banner Flags of Resistance – Mid American Print Council Conference – Kent State University, Ohio
2018     Imaging Utopias: Blueprints For Intent and Dissent – SGCI Print Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada
2018     Too Bad The Good Times Don’t Last – SGCI Print Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada
2016     The World Between: Encounters with Print, Through Print – SGCI Print Conference, Portland, Oregon
2016     Near Mint – SGCI, Portland, Oregon
2013     Let’s All Be Friends – Iowa City, Iowa
2012     Additional Experiments – Iowa City, Iowa

Residencies

2019     Muhu Print - Muhu, Estonia
2019     Nelimarkka Museo - Alajärvi, Finland
2017     Kimmel Harding Nelson Center For The Arts, Nebraska City, Nebraska
2017     Artist In Residence – Platte Forum, Denver, Colorado
2017     Artist In Residence – Richardson-Spica Fellow in Photography and Printmaking, Interlochen Center For The Arts – Interlochen, Michigan
2016     Marble House Project – Dorset, Vermont
2015     Spring Creek Project – Shotpouch Creek, Oregon
2014     The Meadow – Morrison, Colorado
2014     Art Farm – Marquette, Nebraska
2013     Cantera – Guanajuato, Guanajuato, México

Artist Talk / Visiting Artist

2020     Artist talk, studio visits – University of Texas, Austin, Texas
2019     Artist talk, studio visits, editioned print - Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
2017     Artist talk and guest critique - Sonoma State University, Sonoma, California
2017     Studio visits - University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
2013     Artist talk and guest critique - Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky

Publications

2022     A physical book which compiles conceptual books by various artists, Partial Press
2016     Gold Fever – Medford Tribune, Medford, Oregon
2016     Sprts – Watson Library Special Collections, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA, Manhattan, Artists’ Books

Awards

2014     SIF Fellowship, University of Iowa
2012     Wilhelm and Jane Bodine Fellowship, University of Iowa
2012     Blackfish Gallery Award, Portland, Oregon
2012     Schneider Merit Award, Southern Oregon University
2010     Robert L. Casebeer Poetry Award, Southern Oregon University