statement

Palimpsests of Viscera

My art practice is two-fold and conflates the performative with the realm of depiction. In reinterpreting printmaking processes, I'm reconstituting printer's ink and pouring and pulling it across a smooth paper surface with a large metal rule. Drawn simultaneously from both process and phenomena, primordial forms develop and emerge from my substrate. This repetitive action and its ensuing forms connote the layering of present experiences over faded pasts, thereby invoking inherited or invisible histories – a palimpsest of viscera. In the methods of recording or archiving, titling of the works attempts to describe a guttural translation of form, similar to the origins of speech. In this way, pseudo-science is applied as subtext to cloak themes of deception and desire.

bio

born: 1961, Manhattan, New York

education

Montclair State University, MFA, 2009
Pratt Institute, BFA, 1983

selected awards/honors

Honorarium, Lineweight Exhibition, Truman State University, 2009
Viewing Program, The Drawing Center, 2009
Type Directors Club Award, Fox News, 1996
Ford Foundation Award, Pratt Institute, 1981

selected publications

Interviewed by Sable Smith, NoTofu Magazine, 2014
Interviewed by Dania Shihab, "One Day You Will Find Me," onedayyouwillfindme.com, 2013
"Drawing the Line: Wiggly, Squiggly, and Otherwise" by Ilene Dube, US1, 2012
Manifest Gallery, "Manifest Ink and Air," 2012

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Visceral Palimpsests, Solo Exhibition, LaGuardia Galleries, LIC, New York, 2014
Edges, Two-Person Exhibition, Finley Gallery, Montclair, New Jersey, 2009
Drawings, Two-Person Exhibition, Finley Gallery, Montclair, New Jersey, 2008

selected group shows

MANIFEST Gallery, DRAWN 2015, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2015
Riverside Library, Follow Your Passion, New York, New York, 2015
Limner Gallery, Art Biologic, Hudson, New York, 2014
Leigh Wen Fine Art, Emrupt, New York, New York, 2014