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ARTIST STATEMENT
I am concerned with the nature of the body, and how it holds within it representations of love, duality, and mythology.
My paintings, drawings, and prints are in conversation with narrative traditions that I simultaneously admire and doubt. Working between these methods, I am able to investigate how mark and composition create content for narrative.
The role of rendering is fluid, It fluctuates between a gestural celebration of mark and a dense attention to form. I am questioning how the visibility of the artist’s mark reflects on the representational image, and what possible ‘live-ness’ or ‘still-ness’ this can address. Drawing and monotyping encourage a process of quick and repetitive image-making. This allows me to move between slick and coarse surfaces and well as work through iterations of the same image. I work back and forth between these processes in order to utilize the reflective nature of the printmaking matrix. I am interested in symmetry as a relationship, and as a method of creating structure.
The reflective quality of symmetry addresses the relationship between figures, and relationships within a figure. I address the tension between the desires to be one with, and apart from, those we choose to be close to. Phenomenologically, this is rooted in the symmetrical form of the body. I believe the shape of our form is so strong that its symmetry can be completed by another body. Formally, this method of self-framing content is necessary to the architecture of multi-paneled works. The composite structure of these paintings, drawings, and prints comes from the need to start with parts. Through the discovery of the relationships between these parts, I can construct the larger image. This reflection doesn’t stay within the body, it extends to images of the natural world that bow together, and bend apart from each other, and animal forms. Metaphor is an image making tool that I strongly believe in, how one thing can become other things, or perhaps in its nature carries with it multiple identities. This is a question about the ‘part-ness’ or ‘whole-ness’ of my relationships to others, within myself, and to nature.
EDUCATION
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD. 2017-2020, 2021-present
Bachelors of Fine Arts, May 2022. Dean’s List, GPA: 3.9
Painting major, printmaking minor, literary studies minor
AWARDS
2021 Dean’s List, Maryland Institute College of Art. Baltimore, Maryland
2019 National First Place Portfolio Award, National Society of Arts and Letters. USA
2018 National winner in Visual Arts, National YoungArts Foundation. Miami, Florida
2017-2020 Dean’s List, Maryland Institute College of Art. Baltimore, Maryland
2017 Best in Show Award, 52nd Annual BCPS Art Exhibition, Towson, Maryland
Teacher’s Choice Award, 52nd Annual BCPS Art Exhibition, Towson, Maryland
2 National Silver Medal Portfolios, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, USA
2016 National Silver Medal in Painting, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. USA
National Silver Medal in Drawing & Illustration, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. USA
Giordano Portfolio Award, George Washington Carver Center. Towson, Maryland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Repeat/Reflect, 33 Oil paintings, monotypes, and ceramic works
Carver Center Gallery. Towson, Maryland
2019 Of Saturation, Collection of 19 oil paintings, prints, and poetry
Gateway BBOX Gallery. Baltimore, Maryland
Figure and Abstraction, Collection of 27 oil paintings and drawings
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. Baltimore, Maryland
2017 Bearings, 43 works on canvas and paper
Carver Center Gallery. Towson, Maryland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Chimaera, Editioned print. SGC International annual conference: Madison Our Shared
Future. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, Wisconsin
2021 Selections, Two painting diptychs. France-Merrick Foundation Gallery. Baltimore, Maryland
Ephemera, Lithograph and Monotype print. 15/15 Gallery. Baltimore, Maryland
Back in Action, Oil painting. France-Merrick Foundation Gallery. Baltimore, Maryland
Combust, 2 oil paintings. France-Merrick Foundation Gallery. Baltimore, Maryland
2019 National Society of Arts and Letters, D.C Chapter Gala, 3 oil paintings. Sulgrave Club.
Washington DC
Juried Alumni Show, Oil painting. Carver Center Gallery. Towson, Maryland
Personal Directions ’19, 7 oil paintings, 2 ink washes. Maryland Institute College of Art. Baltimore, Maryland
Summer Foreign Travel, 3 oil paintings. Fox 3 Gallery. Baltimore, Maryland
2018 Winners in Visual Arts, 2 oil paintings. YoungArts Gallery. Miami, Florida
Preview #5, 5 oil paintings. Sheila & Richard Riggs Gallery. Baltimore, Maryland
Surface and Space, Ink wash wall painting. Fox 2 Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Go Figure, 5 oil paintings and 1 charcoal drawing. Main 0 Gallery. Baltimore, Maryland
FYE , 7 mixed media works on paper and canvas. Fanny Fox Decker Gallery. Baltimore, Maryland
2017 52nd Annual Art Exhibition, Oil painting. BCPS, Goucher College. Towson, Maryland
State of the Schools 2017, Auctioned live oil painting. BCPS, Martin’s West. Windsor Mill,
Maryland
2016 Art is for Everyone, Oil painting. Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore, Maryland
ARTIST LECTURES
2020 George Washington Carver Center for Art and Technology. Towson, Maryland
2019 Annual President’s Luncheon, National Society for Arts and Letters. Washington DC
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. Baltimore, Maryland
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2021 Landscape design and financial bookkeeping. Fieldstone Nursery, March- August
2020 Graphic design, Exosoma
2019 Logo Design, Tavec Pharmaceuticals
2018 Database complication, American Society for Exosomes and Microvesicles (ASEMV)
2017 Scientific Illustration, commission from Johns Hopkins research laboratory
2016-present Making and selling of artworks
2016-present Commission Portraiture
SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS
2021 Creative Vision Award, Maryland Institute College of Art. Baltimore, Maryland
Arnell Lewis Land Art Scholarship,Maryland Institute College of Art. Baltimore, Maryland
Academic Excellence Scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Art. Baltimore, Maryland
Fanny B. Thalheimer Scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Art. Baltimore,Maryland
2019 National Winston Art Scholarship, National Society of Arts and Letters. USA
2018 Portfolio Grant for Visual Artist, National YoungArts Foundation. Miami, Florida
2017-2020 Creative Vision Award, Maryland Institute College of Art. Baltimore, Maryland
Arnell Lewis Land Art Scholarship,Maryland Institute College of Art. Baltimore, Maryland
Academic Excellence Scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Art. Baltimore, Maryland
Fanny B. Thalheimer Scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Art. Baltimore, Maryland
COLLECTIONS
2022 Southern Graphics Council International. Editioned Print. Kennesaw, Georgia
University of Wisconsin-Madison. Editioned Print. Madison, Wisconsin
2021 Dolphin Press and Print. Editioned Print. Baltimore, Maryland
2019 Decker Library, Maryland Institute College of Art. Poetry chapbook. Baltimore, Maryland
2017 George Washington Carver Center, Atrium Permanent Display. Oil Painting.
Towson, Maryland
George Washington Carver Center, Drawing Department Collection. Charcoal drawing.
Towson, Maryland
George Washington Carver Center, Library Collection. Sketchbook. Towson, Maryland
