Biography

I am interested in processes within abstraction that engage with the psychological elements of space and time. In this series, I work on prefabricated ‘portrait’ scaled canvases made in small groups simultaneously. The paintings are made together in batches of about ten, in a few stages. The studio activity has a range of lifecycles: slow periods of building up the surface, then ripping or cutting it apart. Those fragments are assessed, and sometimes arranged, analogous to how editing uses language, or how remains are identified. The absence left by the fragment is sometimes filled, often from pouring paint from behind, resulting in an absence of touch, an attempt to mend in another direction. I received my MFA from The School of the Art institute of Chicago in 2015 on a full trustee merit scholarship in 2015. I have shown at Anytime Dept., Ohio, The Hole, NYC, Julius Caesar, Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, and The Union League, Chicago. I was published by Yale University press for the Whitney Biennial Catalogue in 2014. I have been a visiting critic at SAIC, Carnegie Mellon and Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. In 2016 I was a panelist at Common Field Conference in Miami when I was the on site Director of the Suburban from 2016-2017.