New York

Artist Statement

I have been working on groupings of figurative sculptures that become theatrical situations for viewers to encounter. Occupied with their own actions and realities, the figures set up a situation for viewer to become voyeur. A moment within a specific interaction has been sculpturally captured giving the viewer time for contemplation. Something has just happened or is about to happen and the viewer’s imagination is free to play those possibilities out. The figures’ characters and actions walk the line between the ordinary and the unusual, innocent and corrupt, and/or public and private. They elude a single classification, presenting implications that viewers are required to confront and assess based on their own ideologies.

Bio
2006-07
Artist in Residence, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT

2006
MFA, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY    

2003-04
Special Student, New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred, NY    

BFA
Siena Heights University, Adrian, MI 

summer 2002             
Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy

Upcoming Exhibitions
2007    Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY (solo)

Exhbitions

2006
Alfred on 25th, J. Cacciola Gallery, Chelsea, NY
The Marge Brown Kalodner Graduate Student Exhibition, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
The Sleep of Reason: MFA Thesis Exhibition, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred, NY

2005
State University of New York Student Exhibition, Plaza Gallery, Albany, NY

2004
New Art from Alfred University, The Loupe Gallery, Prattsburgh, NY
San Angelo Museum of Fine Art National Ceramic Competition, San Angelo, TX

2003
Refiguring the Ordinary (BFA solo show), Studio Angelico, Adrian, MI
Toledo Area Artists Exhibition, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Michigan Mud, Michigan Ceramic Artists Association, Dearborn, MI

2002
Academics, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI
Celebrate Clay, Lawrence St. Gallery, Pontiac, MI
Earth in Balance, Rosewood Gallery, Kettering, OH

Public Collections
Schein-Joseph International Museum of Art at Alfred University, Gloryhole Collection
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX
Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Siena Heights University, Adrian, MI

Awards
2006    Lilian Fellowship, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT
2004    Third Place, National Ceramic Competition, San Angelo, TX
2003    Juror’s Award, Michigan Mud, Michigan Ceramic Artist’s Association