Current and Upcoming
LIVESTOCK in Dublin, Portals
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
selected -- in the past year
Artivismo during ART WEEK in Mexico City with CASA VIVA Gallery and Puerto Roma Verde, curated by Alejandro Challet, collaborative work with Sophie Mars
Grace Exhibition Space, season opening performance event, online April 3rd
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 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 serve as Professor and Director of Art Foundations at the University of Kentucky. I am 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 serve as Professor and Director of Art Foundations at the University of Kentucky. I am 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.
