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Statement
Using historically and politically informed research, my work seeks to investigate the nature of perception of images and history, and to explore the ways in which information is understood through different means of mediation. Weaving in personal perspective and poetic elements, I seek to deconstruct perception by exploring surface, and the fidelity of different means of transmission of image, text and appearance. My most recent work confronts themes of memory and how information is collectively and personally remembered via images. As technology stores more and more of our range of perception, we begin to use terms in which machines store information to refer to our own perception of the past. I wanted to use this work to examine the role of digital surveillance, our sense of political and personal violence, and ideology and its personal effects on our sense of self. Although a digital image is in some ways an exact reproduction of a certain moment or reality, it does not reflect the experience that occurred in the actual moment that was reproduced. These pieces are various explorations of this medium, and the idea of the imperceptibility of a memory or an event. I have begun to examine the role of my own subjectivity and the struggle to relate certain experiences of individual trauma, and shared trauma experienced via imagery and writing. Examining the medium and viewer’s associations with it as well as how this affects recollection have become key questions. I’m interested in the way information is revealed and withheld, altered, and informed. Navigating the distance between oneself and events--not only collective events that can be understood as historical, but individual seeing and remembrance--is a concept important to the evolution of my connection to others and interacting with the world as a global citizen. With the constant incursion of information relating to violence, and separately violence itself, deconstructing my vision and understanding of images has become a vital thread in my work. |
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Education Virginia Commonwealth University, MFA Painting and Printmaking, 2019 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA Emphasis in Writing, 2016 Selected Exhibitions & Readings 2021 Palpable Tensions, Featuring Work by the Milwaukee Queer Artist Collective, Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI 2019 Phone Home, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY Warning: [Re]appropriated Imagery, Ideology and Public Images, Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Anderson Gallery , Richmond VA New Impressions: A Showcase of Contemporary Printmaking, Sechrest Gallery, Highpoint University, High Point, NC Parallel Play, FAB Gallery, Richmond VA 2018 I Had a Flashback of Something That Never Existed, The John Marshall, Richmond VA A Strong Line, Gallery VCU, Doha, Qatar 2017 L'Heauxspitalitea, FAB Gallery, Richmond VA Movable Feast Reading Series, Visual Arts Center, Richmond, VA 2016 Compressing Space, 917 Cornelia Ave, Chicago IL Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago IL Bachelor of Fine Arts Emphasis in Writing Thesis Reading, Leroy Neiman Center, Chicago IL 2013 Until, Defibrillator, Chicago IL Artbash, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL 2011 Superevening: Flashes New Work, MacLean Center Ballroom, Chicago IL Publications Cream City Review, Spring 2022 Featured Artist Talks [Re]appropriated Imagery, Ideology and Public Images, MFA lecture, VCU dept. of Painting and Print I had a Flashback of Something That Never Existed, Gallery Talk the John Marshall Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago Permanent Collections Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection at SAIC Awards United States Artist Grant 2021 Graduate Teaching Fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University 2017 - 2019 Pritzker Family Foundation Award 2014 Distinguished Merit Scholarship at SAIC 2012 Teaching Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA Instructor, School of Arts 2017 - 2019 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Teaching Assistant, Contemporary Practices 2015 - 2016 Professional Service Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival 2021 F Newsmagazine at SAIC 2012 - 2016 East Lansing Underground Film Festival 2012 - 2013 Office Manager, Film Selection Committee |
