statement

I create drawings that find the core expression in human body language by carefully removing contextual information and leaving a structure that both illuminates and challenges the content of an image. Negative spaces provide focus, silence, and an openness to allow the viewer to finish the drawing. The new body of work confronts the current understanding of how we view journalistic images of social unrest that proliferate the media, from professional photographs to low resolution cell phone photos.

bio

born: 1979, New York

education

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, MFA, 2012
University of Delaware, BA, 2001

selected awards/honors

2011 Merit Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts  
2010 Merit Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts  
2008 Travel grant, New Orleans NAEA Conference  

selected publications

2011 Certain Curcuits Magazine issue I  
2009 Working Class Magazine issue IX   

selected group shows

Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE,  2013
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA,  2011
Collage Arts Festival, Underground Theater for the Arts, collaboration with Lawrence-Herchenroether Dance Company, Philadelphia PA,  2011
VWOFFKA sound/video collaboration: "Soundoffka Vol. 2" Philadelphia, PA, 2011