I remember as a teenager viewing an unremarkable fragment of Roman floor mosaic in a museum.
Due to its diminished size, its position as domestic art (made for feet), its basic design- it was not significant. But it remained, and it contained everything meaningful.
Later, working in an auction house, I handled many old, small, and undeniably powerful household things. All of them were made by unnamed, often brutally marginalized people.
As a child, I observed that I was not enough. Making, for me, is an act of resistance. I work quickly. I puncture, stretch, deface, add to, move on from. I describe the ambivalence within my body.
Within the confines of who I have been told I am, I find I am more than that. If I am, so we all are. And that is what I work to communicate in these pieces.
Bio
I was born in 1983 in Chestertown, MD. In 2012 I received a Post-Bacc in Fine Arts from Brandeis University. I graduated from Yale University with a BA in Classics. I have exhibited my work in group and solo shows in Maryland, Massachusetts, and New York, and was a resident at the Vermont Studio Center.
In early 2023 I founded a non-commercial art space, The Tender, in Concord, MA, and curate monthly shows by emerging contemporary artists there. I live and work in Concord.
Education
Post Baccalaureate in Studio Art, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
BA (Classics), Yale University, New Haven, CT
Group Exhibitions
2025
Finders Keepers, Springs Projects, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY
2024
Close Reader, Locust Valley Library, Long Island, NY
How Did We Get Here?, ECOCA at Upstate Art Weekend, ArtPort Kingston, Kingston, NY
Little Lightning, The Canopy Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY
2015
CRIT: The Boston Critique Group, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA