In the studio, I always feel drawn to modes of creating in which complexity arises out of the aggregation of simple, cyclical actions, such as mark-making in repeating patterns, carving, stitching, or weaving. I am fascinated by the way that utilizing these ancient, elemental processes connects me to the creative spirit that makes us all human, and by the notion that nature’s grandest designs are created in much the same way, through incremental, mundane processes - wind and water wearing on rock, the slow accretion of changes as cells divide and multiply. When I am making this work, I experience a shift in the passing of time, an untethering from intention. Despite the laborious nature of some of the processes I use, I feel like I simply set the parameters and let the work make itself, in a way. The resulting balance of structured, intentional design against intuitive and spontaneous form never fails to offer surprises and new questions that drive me forward to make the next iteration.

Education

2013        BA magna cum laude, Studio Art, Davidson College, Davidson, NC

2015-16    MFA program, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Exhibitions

2023 Atrium Series, The Bascom: Center for the Visual Arts, Highlands, NC

2019 Featured Artist, Kingfisher Bar, Durham, NC (solo)

2019 Community as Creator: Seeing Sound, collab. with Duke New Music Ensemble (one night event) Durham, NC

2019 Geometrification, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2019 Art on Paper Fair, Cinders Gallery, New York, NY

2019 Flat File Show, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York, NY

2018    Hillsborough Street Temporary Pedestals (public sculpture), Raleigh Arts Council, Raleigh, NC

2018    Come Out and Play, Chapel Hill, NC

2017    Multiples, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC 

2017    The Lived Body, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC

2016    ma(t)ter-realism, Allcott Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC

2015    The Forest for the Trees (two-person w/ Michelle Podgorski), Artspace, Raleigh, NC

2015    Earthy Abstractions, Ellington-White Contemporary, Fayetteville, NC

2013    Studio Major Thesis Exhibition (solo), Davidson College, Davidson, NC

2013    Annual Student Group Exhibition, Davidson College, Davidson, NC

2012    Annual Student Group Exhibition, Davidson College, Davidson, NC

2011    Annual Student Group Exhibition, Davidson College, Davidson, NC

Residencies

2018    Hambidge Creative Residency Program, Rabun Gap, GA  Nov. 6-18

2018    I-Park Residency, East Haddam, CT Sept. 12-Oct 8

Honors

2018 Lenoir-Rhyne University Visiting Artist Lecture Series (Oct. 26th, 2018)

2013   Phi Beta Kappa, Gamma of North Carolina

2012    McAllen Scholarship for Studio Art

Professional Experience

Fall 2015- Spring 2016 

Teaching Assistant, UNC Chapel Hill: ARTS 103 Core Concepts: Space (Fall), and ARTS 105 Basic Photography (Spring)

April 2016 - Oct 2019

Lutherie Assistant, Pre-War Guitars Co., Hillsborough, NC

June 2016 - 2018 (intermittent/as-needed basis)

Studio assistant to Donald Martiny, Chapel Hill, NC