Grunwald Gallery of Art
Bloomington, Indiana
This work focusses on the compressed symbol, referencing the body, manipulation of line, and landscape. The core of the work reflects on the divide in our culture seemingly motivated by power, control, aggression, and concealment, creating abstractions that are both landscapes and figures morphing into formal tableaus that focus on the ways in which we create and design space for ourselves. Through borders, perceptions of lines, walls, and architecture the lines and shapes define a space, one in which people perceive safety and one in which people perceive otherness, cutting through the landscape as monuments to progress or failure.
The 15th Terra Arte Symposium
Technisches Denkmal Ziegelei Hundisburg, Germany
The symposium is an ambitious four week long workshop where the intention is to find artists whose work is not defined in terms of formal language, themes and materials and who are open to suggestions that result from collaborative studio work by various individuals. The monthlong project concludes with firing the completed artwork in Hundisburg’s famed zig zag brickworks kiln.
Fuller Projects Art Space
Bloomington, Indiana
This show explores the abstracted forms shaped by gerrymandering. It is a commentary on the ridiculous, the cultural game of keep away. Gerrymandering is a political system of redistricting used to allocate resources and voting power. Two distinct patterns of gerrymandering are “cracking,” diluting voting power across many districts, and “packing,” concentrating opponents into one district to reduce voting power. These strange, seemingly illogical shapes created by this ploy are used to inspire works of varying mediums and levels of interaction.
Hunter Project Space
Park Avenue, New York City
This body of work centers on systems, both those we are born into and those that are self-imposed. Through painting images on ceramic objects, the work layers the sociopolitical landscape of American capitalism into rising forms. AXIOM focuses on illuminating and highlighting the contradictions and complications that come with society's necessary institutions.
New Orleans Center For Creative Arts
Kirschman Artspace
New Orleans, LA
Stoneware Clay, Slip, Glaze, Cotton Fiber.
Stoneware, Slip, Glaze, Antique Bench
