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Artist Statement
I make sculptures and photographs. I use the conventions of each genre interchangeably, imposing photography’s flattening, framing and posing constraints on my sculptures, and making photographs that behave like or take the place of objects. The materials assimilate, transform and disappear, paralleling the content that drives my work. Situated in dialogue with Bruce Nauman, Roni Horn, Adrian Piper, and poet Anne Carson, my work investigates the omitted, the invisible, and the absent. Within this context I am most interested in dealing with the body.
When we look at ancient sculpture we either notice or fail to notice that some of the body is missing; likewise with our photographs. Martha Rosler said regarding there being no photos of her father: “This relates to the fact that everyone was killed. Photos were a tantalizing reminder that there was another world that Jews had been a part of that we were not supposed to think about.” Thoroughly assimilated myself I embody this suppressed memory. Pressing questions for me are: How can I manifest the experience of inhabiting this kind of forgetting? How can I create the silent restraint that produces it?
I make sculptures and photographs. I use the conventions of each genre interchangeably, imposing photography’s flattening, framing and posing constraints on my sculptures, and making photographs that behave like or take the place of objects. The materials assimilate, transform and disappear, paralleling the content that drives my work. Situated in dialogue with Bruce Nauman, Roni Horn, Adrian Piper, and poet Anne Carson, my work investigates the omitted, the invisible, and the absent. Within this context I am most interested in dealing with the body.
When we look at ancient sculpture we either notice or fail to notice that some of the body is missing; likewise with our photographs. Martha Rosler said regarding there being no photos of her father: “This relates to the fact that everyone was killed. Photos were a tantalizing reminder that there was another world that Jews had been a part of that we were not supposed to think about.” Thoroughly assimilated myself I embody this suppressed memory. Pressing questions for me are: How can I manifest the experience of inhabiting this kind of forgetting? How can I create the silent restraint that produces it?
CV
EDUCATION
2010, MFA, Hunter College, New York, NY
2008, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2006, BA, Prescott College (2005-2006), The Rhode Island School of Design (2002-2003) and Yale University (1997-1998)
EXHIBITIONS
2011
(un)COMFORT(able) ZONE, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY
Greener on the Other Side, Organhaus Art Space, Chongqing, China
BWY Love, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Place + Time, Bullet Space, New York, NY
All Insignificant Things Must Disappear, Trinity Museum, New York, NY
Half a Self, a Cave-Dweller, St. Cecelia’s Convent, Brooklyn, NY, curated by David Howe
Narrative Arc, UNT on the Square, Denton, TX
There Has Been No Future, There Will Be No Past, ISCP, Brooklyn, NY
One and Three Quarters of an Inch, St. Cecelia’s Convent, Brooklyn, curated by Peter Clough
Slummer Nights, Canada Gallery, New York, NY
Hunter MFA Thesis Show, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
Screening Program, MMX Open Art Venue, Berlin, Germany
Wherever: small works in a portable room, various sites, Hunter College, New York, NY
Transportable Mind, AREA Lugar de Proyectos, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Site Unseen, The Project Space, Royal College of Art, London, England
Dance Ghost, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY
2009
Projections, curated by Cleopatra’s, Independent Curators International at Marquee, New York, NY; NADA Art Fair, Miami, FL; Autocenter, Berlin, Germany
A Very Loud Silence, Le Flash, Atlanta, GA
Time-Based Night, Softbox, Queens, NY
Layout, Gallery West, Suffolk Community College, Long Island, NY
Shirin Neshat Master Class Screening, Lang Auditorium, New York, NY
MAs Select MFAs, Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
From Africa to America: Visual Reflections, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY
North American Graduate Art Survey, Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2008
It’s Not Easy, Exit Art, New York, NY
Altered States, Francis Lewis Gallery, Queens, NY
2006
PostCards from the Edge, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
2005
Open Show, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, juried by Wesley Jessup
Face Me, The 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, CA
2004
Open Show, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, juried by James Elaine
RealLaugh/FakeLaugh, The 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, CA
2003
Open Show, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, juried by Karin Higa
The Paradox of Value, Forget It Jake Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Faculty and Staff Show, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, MI
HONORS
2011
AIRspace Residency, Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY
The 140 Foundation Grant (nominee), New York, NY
2010
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant (nominee), New York, NY
Performer, Mirror Piece I (reconfigured) by Joan Jonas, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Joan Jonas Zabar Residency, Hunter College, New York, NY
2009
Yaddo Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, NY
Paul Pfeiffer Zabar Residency, Hunter College, New York, NY
Shirin Neshat Master Class, Hunter College, New York, NY
2008
Graf Travel Grant, Hunter College, New York, NY, for research trip to Egypt
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2005
Award for Distinction, Gallery 825 Open Show 2005, Los Angeles, CA
2001
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, 2001
1998
Bill T. Jones Dance Workshop, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Sudler Fund Project Grant, Yale University, New Haven, CT
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011
One Year Project, MMX Open Art Venue, Berlin
Vector, DOOWYLLOH, issue 3
2009
ArtForum, Adiran Piper’s Rationality and the Structure of the Self, by Joachim Pissarro, p.82, December
Drain Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture, Father/Fodder, Cold Issue
The Brooklyn Rail, Untitled Photograph, p. 8, March
LECTURES
2009
Visiting Artist, Hunter College BFA, New York, NY
Panelist, Contemporary Artists’ Discussion, African Burial Ground, New York, NY
Featured Artist, A Kantian Critique of Modernism, by Joachim Pissarro & David Carrier, New York Studio School, NY
EDUCATION
2010, MFA, Hunter College, New York, NY
2008, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2006, BA, Prescott College (2005-2006), The Rhode Island School of Design (2002-2003) and Yale University (1997-1998)
EXHIBITIONS
2011
(un)COMFORT(able) ZONE, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY
Greener on the Other Side, Organhaus Art Space, Chongqing, China
BWY Love, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Place + Time, Bullet Space, New York, NY
All Insignificant Things Must Disappear, Trinity Museum, New York, NY
Half a Self, a Cave-Dweller, St. Cecelia’s Convent, Brooklyn, NY, curated by David Howe
Narrative Arc, UNT on the Square, Denton, TX
There Has Been No Future, There Will Be No Past, ISCP, Brooklyn, NY
One and Three Quarters of an Inch, St. Cecelia’s Convent, Brooklyn, curated by Peter Clough
Slummer Nights, Canada Gallery, New York, NY
Hunter MFA Thesis Show, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
Screening Program, MMX Open Art Venue, Berlin, Germany
Wherever: small works in a portable room, various sites, Hunter College, New York, NY
Transportable Mind, AREA Lugar de Proyectos, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Site Unseen, The Project Space, Royal College of Art, London, England
Dance Ghost, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY
2009
Projections, curated by Cleopatra’s, Independent Curators International at Marquee, New York, NY; NADA Art Fair, Miami, FL; Autocenter, Berlin, Germany
A Very Loud Silence, Le Flash, Atlanta, GA
Time-Based Night, Softbox, Queens, NY
Layout, Gallery West, Suffolk Community College, Long Island, NY
Shirin Neshat Master Class Screening, Lang Auditorium, New York, NY
MAs Select MFAs, Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
From Africa to America: Visual Reflections, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY
North American Graduate Art Survey, Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2008
It’s Not Easy, Exit Art, New York, NY
Altered States, Francis Lewis Gallery, Queens, NY
2006
PostCards from the Edge, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
2005
Open Show, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, juried by Wesley Jessup
Face Me, The 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, CA
2004
Open Show, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, juried by James Elaine
RealLaugh/FakeLaugh, The 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, CA
2003
Open Show, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, juried by Karin Higa
The Paradox of Value, Forget It Jake Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Faculty and Staff Show, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, MI
HONORS
2011
AIRspace Residency, Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY
The 140 Foundation Grant (nominee), New York, NY
2010
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant (nominee), New York, NY
Performer, Mirror Piece I (reconfigured) by Joan Jonas, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Joan Jonas Zabar Residency, Hunter College, New York, NY
2009
Yaddo Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, NY
Paul Pfeiffer Zabar Residency, Hunter College, New York, NY
Shirin Neshat Master Class, Hunter College, New York, NY
2008
Graf Travel Grant, Hunter College, New York, NY, for research trip to Egypt
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2005
Award for Distinction, Gallery 825 Open Show 2005, Los Angeles, CA
2001
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, 2001
1998
Bill T. Jones Dance Workshop, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Sudler Fund Project Grant, Yale University, New Haven, CT
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011
One Year Project, MMX Open Art Venue, Berlin
Vector, DOOWYLLOH, issue 3
2009
ArtForum, Adiran Piper’s Rationality and the Structure of the Self, by Joachim Pissarro, p.82, December
Drain Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture, Father/Fodder, Cold Issue
The Brooklyn Rail, Untitled Photograph, p. 8, March
LECTURES
2009
Visiting Artist, Hunter College BFA, New York, NY
Panelist, Contemporary Artists’ Discussion, African Burial Ground, New York, NY
Featured Artist, A Kantian Critique of Modernism, by Joachim Pissarro & David Carrier, New York Studio School, NY
Installation View, 2010. Includes the works, “Nude with Hair From Behind” and “Untitled Forms”.
“Nude With Hair From Behind” (view 2), aquaresin, enamel, wood, and sandbags, 90 x 62 x 32 inches, 2010.
“Untitled Form (Gray)”, c-print, 16 x 23 inches, 2010.
“Untitled Form (Green Reclining)”, c-print, 63 x 80 inches, 2010.
“Stone Smile #2”, alabaster, 9 x 6 x 5 inches, 2011.
“Tongue in Hand”, hydrocal, 2 x 3 x 2.5 inches, 2009.
“Arrangement”, aquaresin, pencil, pedestal and inkjet print, 28 x 32 inches, 2011.
“Figures”, c-print, 20 x 30 inches, 2010-11.
“Blank #1”, c-print, 16 x 24 inches, 2010.
“Blank #3”, c-print, 16 x 24 inches, 2010.
“Fragmentary Torso of a Man and Two Sisters”, inkjet print, pencil, and collaged paper, 13 x 19 inches, 2011.
“Contrapposto Figure of a Woman and Two Friends Leaning”, inkjet print, pencil, and collaged paper, 13 x 17 inches, 2011.
"Stone Smile #1 (version 2)", hydrocal and blank text, 14 x 10 x 10 inches, 2009.
"Image of a Man as Seen by an Unfamiliar Witness", glossy c-print, 8 x 10 inches, 2009.
“Man in Tomb (Egypt)”, c-print, 60 x 80 inches, 2009.
“Head” c-print, 30 x 40 inches. 2008.
Installation View, 2008. Includes the works, “Sunset”, “Concrete Example”, “Stones” and “Letters Home”.
“Concrete Example” (two views), concrete, 14 x 15 x 6 inches, 2008.
“Sunset”, inkjet print and 3-D quotation marks, 44 x 70 x 2 inches, 2007.
“Portrait”, Half-child: gypsum concrete, foam and paint; Stand-in: masonite and wood; Stone Smile #1 (version 1): plaster on pedestal; and image: c-print on wood armature; 50 x 72 x 15 inches, 2008.