Current and Upcoming
Our Breathitt with IDEAS xLab, lead artist for Breathitt County, KY (NEA Our Town Grant Project) www.ideasxlab.com/our-breathitt
including a Cancer Prevention Cooking Garden with UK Landscape Architecture students and the Breathitt County UK Extension Office, Quilts in Celebration of Graduations with Shaina Nailleux at county and city schools, a storytelling writing and retelling series with writers Pauletta Hansel, Jay McCoy, Tom Eblem, Scott Allen and Brent Watts, Podcast series by Jackson Napier and music workshops with Cheyenne Mize, Jonathan Chapman, the Handshake Deals, AND Our Breathitt Summit!
ART WEEK in Mexico City with galleries CASA VIVA Gallery and Soma Gallery (February 2020)
LIVESTOCK at MART Gallery in Dublin, collaborative work with Sophie Mars
Grandmothers are Superheroes at the Berlin Public Library
Somos Gallery in collaboration with WOYM, in Berlin, collaborative work with Sophie Mars
Last year
SECAC, Grandmothers are Superheroes, panel on Drawing in Social Practice, lead by Ellen Mueller
think tank about Performance Realized Solely by Persons Present, Panoply Performance Laboratory, Brooklyn, NY
UK Art Museum performance as a part of RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD: Stages for Being/
at her feet. 6 hour performance, screaming in silence, sewing rugs of her braids, writing her stories that can never be read. Neo-Domesticity Festival, Glasshouse, Brooklyn, 2017
In my art practice I am concerned with maternal ancestry as it influences the construction of identity, assumptions of strength and notions of agency. Individual Grandmothers in our society, after a whole life they are seen thru the lens of their role or perceptions of their archetype and vastly undervalued. When I ask people about their own grandmothers many confess they do not know her first name, how she grew up, nor her favorite music. Many people do not wonder about her until after she has passed. The absence in presence and presence in absence of this grandmother figure in the social lives of families, leads me to think about relationships, relationality and vulnerability in my work.
In all of my works, be they performance, social practice, videos, drawings or sculptures, I use objects and materials that evoke a nostalgic sense of grandmother, drawing from a New England "yankee" aesthetic and my love of France.
I received an MFA from Winthrop University and a BA in Studio Art from Framingham State University. I have shown work at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, McColl Center for Visual Art, Dimanche Rouge in Paris, 10/12 Gallery in Brussels, defibrillator gallery, Panoply Performance Laboratory, Grace Exhibition Space, SUPERNOVA, BIPAF and MPAB festivals and other venues. I also serve as Associate Professor and Director of Art Foundations at the University of Kentucky. I am grateful for the support of the College of Fine Art, the Office of Institutional Research and the School of Art and Visual Studies at the University of Kentucky.
In all of my works, be they performance, social practice, videos, drawings or sculptures, I use objects and materials that evoke a nostalgic sense of grandmother, drawing from a New England "yankee" aesthetic and my love of France.
I received an MFA from Winthrop University and a BA in Studio Art from Framingham State University. I have shown work at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, McColl Center for Visual Art, Dimanche Rouge in Paris, 10/12 Gallery in Brussels, defibrillator gallery, Panoply Performance Laboratory, Grace Exhibition Space, SUPERNOVA, BIPAF and MPAB festivals and other venues. I also serve as Associate Professor and Director of Art Foundations at the University of Kentucky. I am grateful for the support of the College of Fine Art, the Office of Institutional Research and the School of Art and Visual Studies at the University of Kentucky.
