statement

Photography has always served a documentary function in my work, whether I am taking photos as source material for paintings or capturing images with the intent to print them with photographic processes.  In this series, called "Digital Manipulation," I wanted to create a simple narrative of image making that addresses the history of photographs: from the earliest stable iron processes made with hand-coated paper to contemporary practices that use electronic sensors and computers to process the image.  I also wanted to reveal photography's connection to other forms of art by making pictures that address process through both overt revelation of work (application of emulsion and the appearance of art materials in the picture) as well as the implication of work that cannot be seen in the final picture (evidence of computer manipulation with multiple hands and the fact that the final print is made with the paper seen in the picture itself).

bio

born: 1970, Pennsacola, Florida

education

American University, MFA 2005

selected awards/honors

1st Place Alternative Process (and People's Choice award) in annual B&W contest, Rangefinder Magazine, March 2012
Best in Show at "Altered State", ARTSPACE Gallery, Stroudsburg, PA, 2012

selected publications

Diffusion IV, One Twelve Publishing, 2012
Rangefinder Magazine, pg. 100, March 2012

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Kawanhee Inn, Weld, ME 2012
University Hall Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ, 2009
Audubon Society of Rhode Island, 2008

selected group shows

Soho Photo: Annual Photo Competition, New York, NY 2012
MPLS Photo Center: Black & White, The Absence of Color, Minneapolis, MN 2012
Photoworks Gallery: Alternative Visions, Glen Echo, MD 2012
Kiernan Gallery: Illusion and Chemistry, the Alternative Process, Lexington, VA 2012