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ARTIST STATEMENT: 

My work is a compulsion to investigate physical presence and palpable experience. Within mixed media and found materials related to the human body, I am caught in the drama of an anatomical wasteland. My obsessions are solidified as corporeal rhythms, calculations stitched to a body, a space between with and without.  I count freckles, mistake veins for rivers, see weight as power. 

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Education: 

2014                 BFA Summa Cum Laude, Rochester Institute of Technology 

2013                 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Exhibitions

2019                 Americas 2019: Paperworks Exhibition | MiSU NW Arts Center, Minot ND

2018                 Homeward Bound | Crosstown Arts, Memphis TN

                              19th Annual 5x7 Show | Kleinart James Center for the Arts, Woodstock NY

                         Tiny Works, Tiny Dance IV | {9} The Gallery, Phoenix AZ

                         Illumination 2018 | Cameron Museum of Art, Wilmington NC

                         Lucky Seven | The Yards Collective, Rochester NY

                         AiR Byrdcliffe Afternoon | Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock NY  

                         Awards Celebration and Art Auction/ Byrdcliffe Ceramic Facility/ Woodstock NY

                         Open Studios Exhibited Artists/ Woodstock Byrdcliffe Artist Colony/ Woodstock NY

                         6x6: The International Small Art Phenomenon/ Rochester Contemporary Art Center/ Rochester NY

                         In the AiR: Byrdcliffe Artists in Residence 2017/ Kleinert James Center for the Arts/ Woodstock NY

                         18 Emerging/ Gallery Q/ Rochester NY 

                         Casual Fourplay/ Gallery r/ Rochester NY

2017                 Open Studios Exhibited Artists/ Woodstock Byrdcliffe Artist Colony/ Woodstock NY

                         Student Honor's Exhibition/ Bevier Gallery/ Rochester NY

2013- 2016       Annual Juried Painting Show/ School of the Museum of Fine Arts/ Boston, MA

                         Student Honor's Exhibition/ Bevier Gallery/ Rochester NY

                         22nd Annual Regional Juried High School Art Exhibition/ Hyde Collection/ Glens Falls NY

Collaborative Projects and Publications 

2018                 Issue 33/ Signatures Magazine

2017                 Wasp Nest/ Byrdcliffe Artist Residency/ multi-media installation in collaboration with music composer                                David Bird/ Woodstock NY

Residencies and Awards

2019                Main Streets Arts Center Artist in Residence, Clifton Springs NY

2017                Outstanding Undergraduate Scholar 

2014-2018       Morris Mulligan Scholarship 

2014-2018       RIT Founders Scholarship 

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