This artist's practice is based in drawing and explores narratives about biology, and expands into printmaking, puppets and soft sculpture. Recent projects have been shown in solo exhibitions at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in Salt Lake City (Sit Quietly In A Darkened Room And Think Of Nothing, 2019); the Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin (Everything Is For You Until You Discover You Are For It, 2021), the Abington Art Center in Pennsylvania (Solo Series Fall 2019). Other notable exhibitions have been with the Cluster Gallery in Brooklyn, New York; with curatorial group Things Feel Heavy in Detroit, Michigan, at the Northern Illinois Art Museum in DeKalb, IL. She is a fellow of several residency programs, including the Vashon Artist Residency program in Vashon, WA, La Napoule Art Foundation in Mandelieu-La Napoule, France, and the Millay Colony in Austerlitz, NY.
StatementA thread running throughout my work is confusion of the animate and inanimate, an approach to form leading back to the Surrealists. Circulating in my work are meditations on states of transformation, evolution and material culture. Buddhist teachings on desire and anger, emotions and drives that can hijack the mind, inform this work. There is tension between these ideas and the beauty of the object, in this case, a 17th century linen millstone ruff. The elaborate neck ruffles in these drawings fall apart, spit out bones, and burst into flames. The complex ruffs are contradictory; they are empty but give the illusion of fullness, they are volumetric but are comprised only of a sinuous, curving plane. In Wreathe, a dimly drawn ruffled form generates bright blue flames, reminiscent of both American hot rods and halos found in Buddhist painting. In Scatter, the ruffled form is becoming undone, and bare bones are flung into space.
CvMFA: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999
BFA: Drawing and Painting, University of Minnesota at Duluth, 1997
Recent Exhibitions
2024
Transformations, New Bedford Museum of Art, New Bedford MA
2023
Ballinglen Arts Foundation and Museum First Biennial Ballycastle, Co Mayo, Ireland
Alive, group exhibition Chicago Sculpture International Project Space, Chicago IL
2022
Transcending the West Center for Contemporary Art, Loveland CO
Layer on Layer Art League, Rhode Island, Pawtucket RI
The ElementsBrooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Red Hook, NY
2021
Everything Is For You Until You Discover You Are For It, Solo ExhibitionThelma Sadoff Center for the Arts, Fond du Lac, WI
Threads That Bind (when the fabric of social culture unravels)Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition, Red Hook, NY
Throughlines: A Contemporary Drawing ExhibitionIndianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis IN
Storied References, Group ExhibitionNorthern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb IL
Decahedron, online exhibitionWith curatorial group Artists on the Lam, Chicago IL
2019
Sit Comfortably in a Darkened Room and Think of Nothing, Solo ExhibitionProjects Gallery, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City UT
Solo Series Fall 2019, Solo ExhibitionAbington Arts Center, Jenkintown PA
Gender in the Balance Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
2018
Zoom In, Zoom Out The Cluster Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Infinite Undoing Co-curated by Things Feel Heavy and Galleri 2987, Detroit, MI
Masters of Drawing: From Classic Realism to Abstraction Midland Center for the Arts, Midland MI
2017
Recent Drawings, Solo Exhibition, Atrium Gallery, Ball State University, Muncie IN
Great Lakes Drawing Biennial Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti MI
After Dark 6 Greg Moon Gallery, Taos NM
Bradley International Print & Drawing Exhibition Bradley University Galleries, Peoria IL
2016
Alter + Combine (SCENE) Metrospace, East Lansing, MI
Drawing Never Dies RedLine Center for Contemporary Art, Denver CO
2015
Low Utopia Solo Exhibition Mooney Center Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle NY
Forms of Adornment: Flesh and the Erotic Orbit Galleries, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens GA
Dinner Guests: A Collaborative Drawing Installation Curated by Joe LevicasPop-X Festival, Ann Arbor MI
The Base Line: An Exhibition on Drawing ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation, Chicago IL
Paper Route Harrison Center for the Arts, Indianapolis IN
Kinsey Institute Juried Exhibition Grunwald Gallery of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington IN
2014
Shift and Collide: Drawings From Near and Far, Riverworks Gallery, Greenville SC Center for Visual Arts, Clemson University, Clemson SC
Great Lakes Drawing Biennial University Gallery, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti MI
Fact or Fiction Group Exhibition, The Art Center, Highland Park IL
Annual All Media Juried ExhibitionAnn Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor MI
Tales Told, An International Exhibit of Story in Art Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati OH
Magnificent Amber Group Exhibition, Harrison Center for the Arts, Indianapolis IN
2013
Alive! Commodity, Zombie, Avatar, Fetish Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
Circus Group Exhibition, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor MI
Carbon: Life, Decay & Beyond Group Exhibition, Water Street Studios, Batavia IL
Grey Gardens Harrison Center for the Arts, Indianapolis IN
Drawing Experiences Two-Person Exhibition with Karen BaldnerShircliff Gallery of Art, Vincennes University, Vincennes IN
StateRI
CountryUSA
