My creative foundations is my back-to-the-lander roots courtesy of my childhood in rural North Florida and Vermont, early 2000s crunk rap, the Space Hijackers’ art as activism, Bread and Puppet and the King Mango Strut’s art as parade and circus, Adbusters, and queer culture.
My work explores texture and handmade mark-making in repeats. Each is an expression of the imprints that landscapes make on me. Sand and lime paints are natural extensions from landscapes I’ve had my most expansive revelations in: windswept West Texas, the bright saturated skies and mountains of New Mexico and Colorado, the coasts of California.
I grew up in a town with 27 lakes and one stoplight, in a home my parents designed and built by hand. But I left the south for college to study art at Dartmouth, and lived in VT, NY, Michigan, Austin, and SF, before moving to LA.
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Dartmouth College, Studio Art B.A.
Austin Center for Design, Interaction Design and Social Entrepreneurship
University of Texas at Austin, Summer Architecture Intensive
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Print/Media
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