I find relief in turning the task of thinking into physical action. I make work within an expanded definition of drawing, where to draw is to enact a process of thinking with the body. I am interested in drawing’s potential as a communication tool, in its capacity to externalize inner processes through physical movement and material traces that create points of contact – between a hand and a surface or between one body and another. Through varied forms, including works on paper, sculptural arrangement, performance and video, I mark, trace, and map states of indeterminacy in search of new ways to make contact. I attend to pressure and movement, compelled by the immediate, the provisional, and the incomplete.
I am a multidisciplinary artist and educator from Columbus, Ohio. I studied psychology at Ohio Wesleyan University and studio art at Columbus College of Art and Design before moving to Oregon in 2015. I earned my MFA in Art from the University of Oregon School of Art and Design in 2019.
I live in Boulder, Colorado with my human and dog life partners. We go outside and look at things together.