recent highlights
Winds of our Ancestors: Land Grab, collaboration with Casey McGuire, ISC, International Sculpture Conference, two nights of performance, September 2021
Winds of our Ancestors: Grab Rosekill, collaboration with Casey McGuire, performance at Rosekill Performance Art Venue,
Rosendale, NY, July 2021
Winds of our Ancestors: Land Grab, collaboration with Casey McGuire, ISC, International Sculpture Conference, two nights of performance, September 2021
Winds of our Ancestors: Grab Rosekill, collaboration with Casey McGuire, performance at Rosekill Performance Art Venue,
Rosendale, NY, July 2021
Winds of our Ancestors, collaboration with Casey McGuire, still from a performance for the camera in Custer State Park, South Dakota,
as we traveled the Lewis and Clark trail across this grand nation, 2016 https://vimeo.com/208844511
as we traveled the Lewis and Clark trail across this grand nation, 2016 https://vimeo.com/208844511
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.
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 work as Professor at the University of Kentucky. I am incredibly grateful for the generous 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.
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 work as Professor at the University of Kentucky. I am incredibly grateful for the generous 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.
