Artist Statement
My practice as a painter and printmaker has led to fluidity across media, borrowing approaches from one to inform a wider array of media. Whether painting, etching printing plates, assembling collages, or designing cut-paper installations, I navigate between recognition and abstraction, simplifying color palettes while complexifying layers and patterns through construct-deconstruct-reconstruct processes.
I am drawn to collective entities that represent complex interconnections, are larger than the sum of individual parts, and that embody generative, fragile life.
I explore crowds as representative of ephemeral moments where individuals converge to form something abstract, yet familiar. I am fascinated observing the way people interact and negotiate between personal and public space, and I construct crowds that embody this tension. Our cities are formed, altered, and sustained by rubbed shoulders, blocked views, converging paths, diverging destinations, what is given, and what is taken. Greater density of our urban spaces necessitates greater attention to our social interactions, and within my practice, I am asking myself questions about how we can learn to live within the crowd.
My studies of animal collectives such as coral or butterflies also rely on processes of constructing, layering, creating patterns, and contrasting negative and positive space. As with crowds, I am considering ideas about individual and collective identity, alteration, and sustainability.
CV
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 odetourbansprawl, Gallery110, Seattle
2008 Cliffs and Crowds, Gallery110, Seattle
2006 Senior Exhibition, Cultural Activities Center, Temple, TX
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2016-20 Cut Up/Cut Out, Bedford Gallery, CA; Bellevue Arts Museum, WA; Huntsville Museum of Art, AL; Pensacola Museum of Art, FL; Ellen Noel Art Museum, TX; Museum of Arts and Sciences, FL; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, WI; Amarillo Museum of Art, TX; Art Museum of West Virginia University, WV; Lamont Gallery, NH; Massillon Museum, OH; Carnegie Arts Center, CA
2016 NextNewPaper, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2016 Rising Waters, Shifting Sands, The Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA
2013 Suspended, Makerhaus, Seattle
2012 Bemis Fall Show, Bemis Arts, Seattle
2011 Contexts:Contemporary Image Makers, Kenneth J. Minnaert Gallery, Olympia, WA
2011 Printmaking Now! Juried Exhibition, Gallery110, Seattle
2010 I Know You, I Don’t Know You, Gallery110, Seattle
2010 7x10 PrintZero Print Exchange, Seattle and Chicago
2009 White, Gallery110, Seattle
2009 City of Kent Summer Juried Exhibition, Centennial Center Gallery, Kent, WA
2009 South Puget Sound Community College Regional Juried Exhibition, Olympia, WA
2008 Re: Movement, Blank Space Gallery, Seattle
2008 Pulp 3: Works on Paper, Gallery110, Seattle
2007 The Taxi Show, 619 Western Ave, Seattle
2006 Protégé Invitational Exhibition, Cultural Activities Center, Temple, TX
2006 Baylor University Juried Student Show, Martin Museum, Waco, TX
2005 Baylor University Juried Student Show, Martin Museum, Waco, TX
PUBLIC/PRIVATE COMMISSIONS
2024 “Collective Portrait 20: All the people we encounter each day.” Temporary public art installation. Adams Square Mini Park Gas Station Program, City of Glendale, CA
2023 “Collective Portrait 19: All the people I encounter each day.” Indoor cut-paper installation, Law firm, Palo Alto, CA
2022 “Collective Portrait 17: All the people I encounter each day.” Indoor cut-paper installation, Social media company, United States
2022 “Kaleidoscope 2.” Temporary storefront art installation included in the Excelsior Art Initiative, coordinated by ArtSpan. San Francisco, CA
2021 “Collective Portrait 14: All the people I encounter each day.” Temporary storefront art installation included in the Excelsior Art Initiative, coordinated by ArtSpan. San Francisco, CA
2020 “Collective Portrait 11: All the people I encounter each day.” Indoor cut-paper installation, Investment firm, San Francisco, CA
2011 “Collective Portrait: All the people I encounter each day #3.” Temporary storefront installation commissioned by the City of Tacoma/Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber of Commerce for Spaceworks Tacoma: Round 3, Tacoma, WA
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
2019 Sukkah Studio, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA. Pop-up residency and workshop, October 14.
2017 “We make this city,” Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA. Social practice. The artist and the public collaborated to create a temporary mural in the museum with pattern-filled silhouettes. October 6.
2017 "Light Play + Cut Paper," Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA. August 16-17. Museum visitors were invited to collaborate in a workshop to create an immersive, color-filled environment with the backdrop of artist’s cut-paper installation.
2016 “We make this city” @ ICALive!, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA. Social practice. The artist and the public collaborated to create a temporary mural with pattern-filled silhouettes in response to the prompt “What do you want to add to your city?” September 2.
ART FAIRS
2019 StARTup Art Fair, San Francisco, CA (April 26-28, 2019)
2018 Spectrum Art, Miami, FL (December 4-9, 2018)
2018 StARTup Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA (January 26-28, 2018)
PRESS
“’Cut Up/Cut Out’ surprises with art on the edge.” Review. The Seattle Times. 14 July 2017 http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/visual-arts/cut-up-cut-out-surprises-with-art-on-the-edge/
“Paper is the Star at San Jose’s Institute of Contemporary Art.” Review. KQED. 2 June 2016 http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/06/02/paper-stars-at-san-joses-institute-of-contemporary-art/
“Beat the Crowds: Visit Visual Art on a Smaller Scale This Summer.” Arts Guide. KQED. 25 May 2016 http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/05/25/beat-the-crowds-visit-visual-art-on-a-smaller-scale-this-summer/
“Night Shifts.” Blog. Spaceworks Tacoma. 21 Mar. 2011 https://spaceworkstacoma.com/2011/03/21/night-shift/
"Many Contexts." Review. The Weekly Volcano [Tacoma], Visual Edge sec. 11 Jan. 2011 <http://www.northwestmilitary.com/music-and-culture/stage-and-visual-reviews/2011/01/contexts-contemporary-image-makers-minnaert-center-gallery-olympia/>
“Where You Should Be And What You Should See Now.” Arts Guide. CityArts, September 2010: 46. Print.
EDUCATION
M.A. Museology, University of Washington
B.A. Magna Cum Laude, Honors College, Studio Art, Baylor University