statement
As a figurative painter I am repeatedly confronted with the physical and psychological landscape of the female body. My understanding of my own body is influenced and constructed by the shifting social landscape surrounding the female nude. Through self portraiture I have questioned and personalized my relationship to this loaded history, placing my own body into its chronology and creating a collection of visual symbols aimed at expressing my own experience and observations.
The formal narrative of the painting consists of the female nude navigating an environment of cramped wooden crates. The structures are located in a vacant scuffed up room that references a gallery space. For me the bodies within the boxes become art objects. The figures navigate the space within the boxes, both exploring their relationship to the environment and their relationship to each other. Spatially constricted they react both physically and psychologically. Their experiential condition is communicated through the bodies‚ expression of color, tension and mark. The bodies are containers themselves, existing within containers, existing within containers, existing within containers and onwards.
bio
born: 1982, Arlington Heights, Illinois
education
Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MFA, 2011
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, BFA 2004
selected awards/honors
Blanche E. Coleman Award, 2011
Dana Pond Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2011
Boit Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2010
Springborn Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston , 2009
selected publications
New American Paintings, NE #98 2012
Artist a Day, www.artistaday.com March 2012
Flat File, www.flatfileboston.com, 2011
McQuaid, Cate. "2011 Boston Young Contemporaries.‰ Boston Globe, July 28 2011. A & E Section.
selected solo or two-person exhibits
Small Spaces, C. Schlosberg Gallery, Beverly MA, 2011
selected group shows
Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Gallery, Boston, MA, 2011
SMFA Thesis Exhibition, Tufts University Gallery, Somerville, MA, 2011
Proof of Purchase, Samson Gallery, Boston, MA, 2010
The Next Generation III, Huret and Spector Gallery, Boston, MA, 2009
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