statement
In my work, social commentary is abstractly woven into minimalistic spaces and structures. Though I do not subscribe to any particular medium, my background in graphic design heavily influences my work. I utilize clean graphic and architectural elements, giving my work a sense of "air" or "space" so that the viewer can move around the subject visually, and sometimes physically.
The "Voided Spaces" series is an exploration into the constant wavering balance between chaos and order through the marriage of geometric and organic spaces. The cumbersome nature of the graphite powder medium is used to help convey the unpredictability of our lives, and our blind pursuit for control.
Using imagery from large fires, the drawings, though appearing to be meditative, are explorations into chaos and our ability to distance ourselves physically and mentally, creating barriers, or voids, around us to function and to move within. They don't completely lockout the chaos; they interact with it, absorb it, and sometimes allow it to penetrate. The drawings are sculptural, "carving out" the imagery from the darkness of the graphite.
bio
born: 1971, Houston, Texas
education
The University of Texas at San Antonio, MFA, 2012
Texas State University, BFA, 1995
selected awards/honors
Vermont Studio Center Residency, Awarded an Artist/Writer Grant, Johnson, Vermont, 2015
Artpace, Short-list for 2016 International Artist-in-Residence program, San Antonio, Texas, 2015
Artpace, Short-list for 2015 International Artist-in-Residence program, San Antonio, Texas, 2014
The League Residency at Vytlacil: Awarded the Ruth Katzman Scholarship, Sparkill, New York, 2014
selected solo or two-person exhibits
Roosevelt Gallery, Voided Spaces, San Antonio, Texas, 2014
Annetta Kraushaar Gallery at Texas Lutheran University, The Second Part of the First, Seguin, Texas, 2013
UTSA Satellite Space, Permutation, San Antonio, Texas, 2012
selected group shows
Bastrop Art in Public Places, Downtown Sculpture Project, Bastrop, Texas, 2015
McNay Art Museum, Regarding Ruscha, San Antonio, Texas, 2015
Ruiz-Healy Art at INK Miami Art Fair, Miami, Florida, 2014
French & Michigan, 50/250, San Antonio, Texas, 2013 |
