Duet
 2009
 Steel, Glass, Acrylic, Water Color
 57”x 26”x 41”

 

            

        

        

                                 


 

    

        

        

          

  

          


  

 

         

           

Artist's Statement:

I make drawings. Ink on paper is a good starting point for mark making on a plane, but drawing in three-dimensional space requires new materials and a new visual vocabulary. My pieces begin with the most familiar flat surfaces, the wall and the floor. On these planes I draw, dig into, and build out of into space with a range of traditional fine art materials to the industrial. (e.g. sheetrock, lumber, pipe, glass, and rubber). Light and shadow act as mediators between the physical forms I make and the images I create.

Working with these materials I try to create tension between geometric constructions and free form gestural marks. Shifting planes in space act as different perspectives. Real shadows cross paths with false shadows painted to move against the grain of natural light. Whether I use geometry to structure fluidity, or fluidity to liberate the constraints of geometric forms is a question that can be interpreted by the viewer.

BIOGRAPHY:

Education

2010     Massachusetts College Of Art and Design MFA Boston, MA

2006     Hampshire College BA Amherst, MA

Teaching Experience

2010     Adjunct Professor: Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston MA

Form Study

As part of the studio foundation curriculum, Form Study introduces students to a variety of

materials, tools, processes, and critique techniques for sculpture and three-dimensional design.

Assignments focus on scale, volume, form, material language, processes, conceptual practice and installations. Students strengthen their physical and conceptual perceptions of three-dimensional art and are informed through lectures, field trips, critiques and hands on demonstrations.

Solo Exhibitions

2009     Through It All

             Doran Gallery, Massachusetts College of art and Design, Boston, MA

2009     Breaking Down

             Doran Gallery

2008     ¼ Mile

             Doran Gallery

2007     Unbeknownst Place

             OSKA Soho Gallery, New York, NY

2006     Wall Drawings

             Velvet Mill Gallery, Stonington, CT

2006     Sculpting Drawing, Rendering Abstraction

             Hampshire College, Main Gallery, Amherst MA

1997     PURE PAINT PAINTINGS

             PMW Gallery, Stamford, CT

Group Exhibitions
2010     Hampshire College Alumni Show (Juried)

             Hampshire College, Main Gallery, Amherst MA

2010     MFA Thesis Show

             Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of art and Design

2009     Next Generation 3 (Juried)

             Huret and Spector Gallery Emerson College, Boston, MA

2009     Graduate Midway Show

             The Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery

2009     Boston Young contemporaries (Juried)

             Gallery 808, Boston University, Boston, MA

2008     MFA Entrance Show

             Doran Gallery

2007     51st Regional Show (Juried)

             Mystic Art Center, Mystic, CT

             Juried by Todd Bartell (2nd Place Winner)

2007     The Second Crossing (Juried)

             Hygienic Art, New London, CT

2007     Found

             Central Gallery, Old Saybrook, CT

2007     Annual Members Show

             Mystic Art Center, Mystic, CT

2006     Celebrate The Night

             Central Gallery

2006     57th Annual Art Of The North East (Juried)

             Silvermine Guild Art Center, New Canaan, CT

             Juried by Ben Barzune, Senior Associate, Knoedler Gallery, NYC

2005     A DIFFERENT TIME & PLACE

             PMW Gallery

2005     Lemelson Show

             Hampshire College Main Gallery

2004     Five College Advanced Drawing Exhibition

             Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst College, Amherst, MA

2003     Digital Self

             Hampshire College Photo Gallery

2002     The Group

             Miranda Fine Art Gallery, Port Chester, NY

Permanent Collections

Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA

Hampshire College, Amherst, MA

Amherst College, Amherst, MA

PMW Gallery, Stamford, CT

Selected Publications and Interviews

Currents Mystic River Press                          Ashley St. Pierre

Ink Magazine                                                   Karen C.L. Anderson

Connecticut Post                                            Philip Eliasoph

Stamford Times                                              A.J. O’Connell

Art World                                                         PhD Barnaby Ruhe

The Advocate & Greenwich                            Time Nadia Lerner

Connecticut Public Television & Radio          Tendeleya Wilder

Related Employment:

Preparator:

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

New York, NY

Gallery Preparator:

School of The Museum of Fine Arts

Gallery Preparator:

The Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery, Stephen D. Paine Gallery, Presidents Gallery

Massachusetts College of Art and Design Boston MA

Fabrication Technician:

Vitra Design Museum, The de Boisbuchet Summer program

Technical Skills

• Metal, (Welding, Mig, Tig, And Oxy Acetylene)
• Wood (Table Saw, Miter Saw, Jointer, Thickness Planer, Band Saw, Ect)
• Printmaking (Intaglio Printmaking, Copper, Zink, Mono)
• Drawing (Perspective, Drafting,)
• Finish construction

Photography by
Gregory Vershboew