statement

My work investigates paint stratification and image accessibility. An element of human intimacy that devastates me is that we aren't allowed immediate access to what others feel. My recent portraits explore an unbridgeable distance between my family and I. In the paintings of my mother, father, and brother, my effort to depict a likeness also articulates an empathetic pursuit. I am feeling into the painting's exterior for something underneath and reporting a direct labor of love by starting a mixing palette on the chest of each figure. I mark and scratch paint layers with pencil to make buttons and stripes and creases. These intimate gestures exhibit empathetic activity and make manifest an embodied artistic response to loving and feeling estranged by love.

bio

born: 1982, Manchester, Connecticut

education:

Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MFA, 2010
University of Wisconsin River Falls, BFA, 2007

selected awards/honors

Trustees Scholarship, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 2008-2009
Opportunity Grant, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 2008-2009
Mary L. Barrett Scholarship, University of Wisconsin River Falls, 2006
Research and Scholarly Activity Grant, University of Wisconsin River Falls, 2006

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Wyman Education Building, An Act of Teaching (public mural), River Falls WI, 2007
Gallery 101, Figurative Abstraction, River Falls WI, 2007

selected group shows

The Soap Factory, 2010 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Minneapolis, MN, 2010