calling ancestry, performance in Joint Exhibition, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
Other recent highlights
jug-ger-knot-not-naught, Center for Polish Sculpture, Collaborative performance and sculpture with Mikolaj Trus, Malgorzata Zbroinska-Piatek, Hannah Smith, and Hunter Stamps, Oronsko, Poland
2.0 Kinds of Funny, DAAP Galleries, Cincinnatti, OH
Art in Odd Places (AiOP) 2024: CARE is curated by Patricia Miranda and Christopher Kaczmarek. Curatorial Manager: Valentina Zamora. Producer: Robin Schatell. Founder & Director: Ed Woodham. artinoddplaces.org
CAC, Contemporary Art Center, Performance Response mini-festival, works in response to Tai Shandi’s solo-exhibition, selected, Cincinnati, OH
In my art practice I work with intimacy, risk and therefor vulnerability as my main material. I am also deeply 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. Often this is conveyed through archetypal or sentimental gestures, materials and interactions between myself and the viewer/participant.
My art has been exhibited widely and performed at/with the Queens Museum, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, McColl Center for Visual Art, La Pocha Nostra, Dimanche Rouge in Paris, LIVESTOCK in Dublin, defibrillator gallery, Panoply Performance Laboratory, The Brick Theater in Brooklyn, Grace Exhibition Space, Rosekill, grüntaler9, Satellite Art Show, BIPAF and MPAB festivals and many other venues. I curate and organize a performance art experience called Portal. I earned an MFA from Winthrop University and a BA in Studio Art from Framingham State University.
My art has been exhibited widely and performed at/with the Queens Museum, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, McColl Center for Visual Art, La Pocha Nostra, Dimanche Rouge in Paris, LIVESTOCK in Dublin, defibrillator gallery, Panoply Performance Laboratory, The Brick Theater in Brooklyn, Grace Exhibition Space, Rosekill, grüntaler9, Satellite Art Show, BIPAF and MPAB festivals and many other venues. I curate and organize a performance art experience called Portal. I earned an MFA from Winthrop University and a BA in Studio Art from Framingham State University.
