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 In my site specific objects and installations, utilitarian textiles are used to explore the potent history of use, and the multiple associations of a material. Through an incremental means of building with new and used hospital and surgical towels, bath towels, used clothing, and more recently, industrial felt, I make structures that address mass and void, weight, density, equilibrium, compression and release. Within these qualities, I find parallels in the physical and psychological states of the body, and the human condition. These intimate materials have an intense relationship to the body, and the capacity to carry traces, memory and former use. My interest in mundane physical actions of folding and stacking finds its focus in order and reduction. The expressiveness of a simple activity of the hand, in addition to issues in the industry of labor and serial repetition, make reference to artistic precedent such as mono-ha and Minimalism. The integration of form, structure and materiality with an architectonic response to space, is critical to this work. Analyzing the experiential and psychological aspects of space has led me to explore methods of articulating form through lines of axis, spatial movement, and in the Japanese concept of ma, a combined sense of place and time. I blur boundaries of wall, plane and object within the geometry of their architectural context. I am an artist and educator based in Kansas City, Missouri. Recent work has been exhibited at the Cranbrook Art Museum, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Byron Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art, and Paragraph Gallery. My sculpture and installations have been reviewed in Art in America, Sculpture, Art Papers, Review, Kansas City Star. My work has been supported by the Charlotte Street Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Review Studio Fund/Brad and Linda Nicholson Foundation, and Creative Capital Foundation Professional Development Workshop, and is found in collections of the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, George K. Baum and Company, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Investors Fiduciary Trust, and in private collections in Los Angeles, Detroit and Kansas City. | |
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