Wunderkammer, or 16th century Curiosity Cabinets, have historically been concerned with the strange and extraordinary. These arrangements of natural and man-made objects could capture particular memories of far away, exotic places that were then used to store and retrieve memories. Curiosity cabinets have also shared a relationship with memento mori, (images and objects intended to remind the viewer of mortality). It is out of these artistic traditions that my drawings are created. The intent of constructing and arranging objects, both natural and artificial into personal, domestic "cabinets" is to create my own time capsule of a particular place. These "cabinets" appear as collaged textures, linear wood grains and dripping planar furnishings, IKEA chairs, mid-western mass-produced decor with traces of wigs and legs.
Experimentation with collage and drawing in relation to fragmented and sometimes appropriated images influence the process of my work. The "collage aesthetic" born out of artists like Kurt Schwitters, the Dada movement, has been an influence on my process in drawing.
born:1975, Wooster, OH
education:
American University MFA, 2003
University of Cincinnati, BFA 2000
selected awards/honors
Ohio Art's Council recommendation for Individual Excellence Award, 2011
Catharina Baart Biddle Art award, American University, Washington, DC, 2003
selected publications
Drawing Essentials, a Guide to Drawing from Observation, Deborah Rockman, 2008
International Drawing Annual, Manifest Gallery, 2007
selected
solo or two-person exhibits
Decoys, Clusters, and Pods, Bliss Gallery, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH, 2008
Project for the New and Improved American City, Meyer Gallery, University of Cincinnati, OH, 2007
selected
group shows
Alpan International, Alpan Gallery, Huntington, NY, 2010
The House in my Head, Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, 2010
Au, Loncar, Posey, Purdum, Thompson, Zeringue, Beta Pictoris Maus Contemporary, Birmingham, AL, 2010
Alumni Exhibition National Juried Exhibition, Katzen Center, American University, Washington DC, 2010
