What I have tried to do is create, through a physical process, works that are hopefully powerful, contemplative, and sustainable. I look to geologic structures for ideas, so crater forms were a natural choice to work a circular format within a square picture plane-it helped me contain their shape and form. I used the craters as the primary metaphor, as I cut, sanded, abraded, and built back layers of material. Lastly, the images refer to no place specifically, but are the result of research and of looking inward.

born: 1969, Dallas, Texas

education

Arizona State University MFA, 2003
Art Center College of Design BFA, 1996

selected awards/honors

Phoenix Art Museum, Grant
Purchase Award-College of Notre Dame
Nancy Mattice Emerging Artist Exhibition

selected publications

Eyelounge Contemporary Artspace: Fifth Anniversary Catalogue
Paper Tigers, Saunthy Nicholson-Singh Sacramento News and Review; Sacramento, CA
Critic's Picks, J. Bowers, Baltimore City Paper; Baltimore, MD. April
Art Much More Exciting, Press-Telegram. Long Beach, CA. October

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Stark Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Eye Lounge Contemporary Art Space, Phoenix, AZ
Fala Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Central Arizona College, Coolidge, AZ

selected group shows

31st Bradley International Print & Drawing Exhibition
Visual Arts Society of Texas 39th Annual Exhibition
Paperwork In, On and Of Paper-3rd Annual Exhibition
National Exhibition of Works on Paper Axis Gallery