Education: Massachusetts College of Art
Degree: BFA- Painting ‘05
Awards/Honors
2000- California College of Art “Creative Achievement Scholarship Award”
San Francisco, CA
2002- FA 2D Massachusetts College of Art Juried “All-School Show”
Boston, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2003- Spectrum “Art” group show, Massachusetts College of Art
Boston, MA
2004-FA 2D Massachusetts College of Art Juried “All-School Show”, Boston , MA
2004 – “Art Is Dead”, Le Corpse Show
Jamaica Plain, MA
2005- “Word Of Mouth” Drawing Collective, RYHS Gallery,
South End, MA
2005- “Senior Art Exhibition” Massachusetts College of Art
Boston, MA
2006- “Urban Art” Smirnoff Movement Studio
Brooklyn, NY
2007- “FPC” Group fundraiser exhibition Fat Baby
New York, NY
2007- “All Small Things” White Space Gallery
New Haven, CT
2008- “Black History Month” White Space Gallery
New Haven, CT
Artists Statement
My work is a process. In my paintings, paints, materials, and surfaces engage in a structured and organic dialogue. By drawing on both positive and negative space, I create movement and atmospheric moods with color. I enjoy little entities in a painting. In my work, the presence of an object, mark, or stroke can be seen up close as a beautiful moment, then lend itself to interact in a larger group- the painting.
I begin my process by mixing paint with mediums to achieve the desired viscosity to allow the paint to move. After carefully laying the paint down on the surface I begin layering, subtracting, restricting and improvising. Sometimes I like to play with limits of control versus the chance of where the paint ends up.
In this process I enjoy experimenting with mixed media in collage, tape, varying the opacity of paint, etc. While new elements of color and marks are added to a pre-existing layer, other pieces are stripped away, leaving behind an ephemeral impression on the surface- like a memory. My work becomes a visual diary of all that is experienced in the process of developing something new.
I fashion myself an Inventor.
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