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 Within my site responsive drawings, installations and objects, I am fascinated with the interplay between the spatial, conceptual, and architectonic conditions of a place. Through an incremental means of building with utilitarian materials, industrial felt, paper towels, clothing, new and used hospital and bath towels, I make structures that address mass and void, line, weight, density, compression and expansion. Within these qualities, I find parallels in the physical and psychological states of the body, and the human condition. These pliable materials have an intense relationship to the body, and the capacity to carry traces, memory and a potent history of former use. My interest in mundane physical actions of folding, cutting, separating, stacking finds its focus in organization and reduction. The directness 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 drawing methods of articulating form through lines of axis, spatial movement, and in the Japanese concept of ma, a combined sense of place and time. Through examining plan, elevation and section of a space, I blur boundaries of wall, plane and object within the geometry of their architectural context. Recent work includes a site specific installation/commission for American Institute of Architects/Kansas City and exhibitions at Chapman Gallery at Kansas State University, Review Studios, Cranbrook Art Museum, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Byron Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art, and Paragraph Gallery/Urban Culture Project, including a solo exhibition at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in 2005. I have held academic appointments at the Kansas City Art Institute and the University of Kansas through 2009, and have held a Review Studios Residency since 2005. My work has been reviewed in Art in America, Sculpture, Art Papers, I. D Magazine, Review, and Kansas City Star with recent publications including Hothouse: Expanding the Field of Fiber at Cranbrook 1970-2007 and 10/Charlotte Street Foundation 10th Anniversary catalog. I have received awards and honors including the Charlotte Street Foundation Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, ArtsKCFund/Inspiration Grant, Review Studios Fund/Brad and Linda Nicholson Foundation, and Creative Capital Foundation Professional Development Workshop Award. My work is included in collections of the National Center for Drug Free Sport, Andrews-McMeel Universal Publishing, Missouri Bank, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Helix Architecture and Design, Fishnet Securities, Inc., George K. Baum and Company, and in private collections in Los Angeles, Detroit and Kansas City. | |
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