Virtual Senior Art Exhibition

20-016.A Wash Your Hands, Digital Photography, 2020

20.016.B Twenty Seconds, digital photography, 2020 

20.016.C Stay At Home, digital photography, 2020

I attempt to substantiate the nominal units of art. The individual gesture, the minimal acts, and influences on material and surface that often erase and obscure themselves as they are produced. These actions require repetition to draw focus or to create a whole to substantiate the worth of the collective whole rather than existing as standalone intentions of art. 

20-015 Counting The Daze, Oil on Canvas, 2020

My art is the meeting place of my love for the Earth, magic, and storytelling. I listen to the seasons change and draw wild women and creatures shifting, healing, and dancing in communion with the natural world. My paintings, drawings, and prints live in an imagined world that is both wild and desperately empathetic. This imagined space draws from the richness I find in ancient mythologies, folklore, and ritual, but it also comes from the need to build a new way of life based on love and connection between all beings and nature. It is a place of quiet strength, of healing, of joy, and of life, and I hope it makes this world, the one we’re living in now, feel a bit more full of those things too. 

Mother (leaf-eater), acrylic, gesso, and chalk pastel on canvas, 2019

Run and Grow, oil and chalk pastel on canvas, 2020

Amazon and Huckleberries, oil and chalk pastel on canvas, 2020

After Hibernation, acrylic, gesso, and chalk pastel on canvas, 2020

Sleepers (end of Autumn), acrylic, gesso, and chalk pastel on canvas, 2019

Winter/Migration/Renewal, acrylic, gesso, and chalk pastel on canvas, 2020

Croucher, acrylic, gesso, and chalk pastel on canvas, 2020

She-wolf, acrylic, gesso, and chalk pastel on canvas, 2019

Perch, Bark, and Bowl, found wood and ceramic, 2019

Wild Peony and Grass, oil and chalk pastel on canvas, 2020

Seer, acrylic, gesso, and chalk pastel on canvas, 2019 

My work is about seeking depth and understanding in sensation, premonition, dreams, and spiritual experience: I seek to create meaning out of chaos and dissonance. I explore the relationship between the real and surreal, mundane and divine through tracing the flow of energy in the materials I work with across my painting and sculpting.

Over my four years in Oberlin, I have fallen in love with the Ohio landscape, and I consider much of the work that I have done here experimental landscape paintings. I love to play with food and physical elements of the landscape in my paintings.

I had an argument with the Dirt Today, egg tempera on garden post, 2019

Honeybee, honey and pigment on dinner plate, 2019

Honeybee, honey and pigment on dinner plate, 2019

I make comics and other things. In every project, the process always revolves around a self-conscious cycle of consuming and regurgitating images. I watch movies, I listen to music, and I spit out the skeletons of these things and try to rearrange those bones into a new creature.

Night Movies (cover), comic, 2020

I am an artist of found objects and reconstruction. My pieced hinge on time and the way that things fall apart and reform. I like to focus on this deformed reconstruction from our own refuse; playing with what it will look like when the earth reclaims and restructures the things we leave behind. These pieces have been my reflections not only on the functions of the earth but also on the passage of time. 

A Vessel for Time, clay, 2020

All Dried Up, dried mango skin, 2020 

Emergence, watercolor, pen, and mesh on paper, 2020

Night Light, digital photography, 2020

The Res in a Different Light, digitally altered pen and ink drawing, 2020

In the process of moving between places, I find that the architecture and organization of spaces forms a diorama of emotional memory and lived experience. I seek to conjure my own locations and to create spaces of genuine self expression, self examination, and active engagement with the emotional and social ramifications of aesthetic choice. My work takes the form of printmaking, woodworking, carpentry, works on paper, painting, installation, and music.

Desert Phone Booth, wood and wood screws, 60” x 70” x 40” (Approx). Special thanks to Richard Wood, 2019

Instrument Case, graphite, ink, marker, 9” x 12”, 2020

A Small Patch of My Grass Rug, graphite, marker, 9” x 12”, 2020

Bulbous Hole, graphite, ink, marker, 9” x 12”, 2020

Senior Studio Halftime Exhibition, mixed media, 2020

Circa Box 2 (Visible Storage), mixed media, 10” x 10” x 2”, 7” x 7” (approximate), 2020

I am interested in the abstraction of noteworthy yet everyday objects. These noteworthy objects should transform the places in which they reside. When walking into the Skylark Bar in Chicago it is the screen print of two grandmothers on a canvas above the photo booth, the velvet curtains, or the masonic seals on silk flags. It can be the album or book on your parent’s shelf whose image captivates one’s young, inexperienced eyes for hours. You imagine the music within, the information it can hold. Perhaps for a moment their form may be vague but nevertheless they form a landmark of the spaces of memory.

Eichler Roof, graphite, ink, marker, 9” x 12”, 2020

Gradient Box Overgrown, graphite, marker, 9” x 12”, 2020

Ahh (Descending Pitch), screen print w/ relief linocut on paper, 9” x 18”, 2020

Circa Box 1 (Visible Storage), mixed media, 10” x 10” x 2”, 2020

A Tree in the Middle of the Woods, graphite, colored pencil, ink on paper, 11” x 17”, 2020

Hell is Chrome, ink on paper, 9”x 12”, 2020