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As a native Oregonian, I spent the majority of my life in the Pacific NW. I studied painting/drawing and biology/chemistry at OSU where I obtained a BFA before traveling abroad, to receive a Postgraduate Art Degree from the Cyprus College of Art. After graduating with honors from Pratt Institute MFA new forms/sculpture program, I lived in NYC as an emerging public artist for more than a decade. The work I create has been exhibited in over 70 site-specific public sculpture installations across 30 states. My work has received awards for inclusion in exhibits centered on climate change, accolades for science-inspired art and has been featured in several publications based on arts in parks programs across the US. I’m current Interim President and Grants Chair of a non-profit organization, Chicago Sculpture International where I began an Outreach Education program with the Boys and Girls Club. I travel extensively for creation of my work which can be found in various natural, rural and urban settings as an exploration of relationships between nature/humans/technology.
Statement
These puzzles of nature and time held within branches of dead trees exhibit impermanence, entropy and life’s only true constant: change. Accelerated by relationships observed between nature/humans/technology, this work focus and blurs overlooked links in matrices of existence. Forefathers of ecology included here succumb to political staging of their respectful time in history. Subject to modern day magnification, their contributions to greater overall awareness of and for nature hide behind shifting policies which depend on fragmented, lukewarm politics. Human collectivity finds itself at a unique crossroad of membership where the artificial worlds we create has regarded us as the greatest evolution of life. Other lifeforms appear inferior opposed to the reality of all life as interconnected. This caustic division forges new variations of consciousness where progress and innovation is ultimately defined by subservient volatility.