Current and Upcoming
A-PAB and gr_und gallery, Berlin, collaborative work with Sophie Mars
Project HEAL with IDEAS xLab, lead artist Jackson, KY (NEA Our Town Grant Project) www.ideasxlab.com/proj-heal/
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
Previously this year
LIVESTOCK, MART Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, workshop and performance www.facebook.com/events/1953329754930164/
New-Domesticity, Morlan Gallery, Lexington, KY
Temporal and Corporeal: A Broad Scope of Performance Art, Ohio University Art Gallery, Athens, OH
Glasshouse Art/Life/Lab, at her feet in the Recipe Kitchen, Brooklyn, NY
A-PAB and gr_und gallery, Berlin, collaborative work with Sophie Mars
Project HEAL with IDEAS xLab, lead artist Jackson, KY (NEA Our Town Grant Project) www.ideasxlab.com/proj-heal/
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
Previously this year
LIVESTOCK, MART Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, workshop and performance www.facebook.com/events/1953329754930164/
New-Domesticity, Morlan Gallery, Lexington, KY
Temporal and Corporeal: A Broad Scope of Performance Art, Ohio University Art Gallery, Athens, OH
Glasshouse Art/Life/Lab, at her feet in the Recipe Kitchen, Brooklyn, NY
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. I am concerned with the 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 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. Much of this work has been made possible due to their financial contributions.
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 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. Much of this work has been made possible due to their financial contributions.
