The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, is about moments on the cusp of transitioning. Through photographing soft sculptures and wearable forms on dancers, the images capture a moment where the human form is indistinguishable, melting into another shape similar to the way daylight shifts into nighttime at dusk. As Jean Genet writes “dusk… the hour in which… every being becomes his own shadow, and thus something other than himself.”
All work was made in collaboration with dancer Scott McPheeters and included in the group MFA thesis exhibit, Lingua Franca, curated by Ashley Stull Meyers, August 2018
Looking to find moments of slippage where the body is less known, this series of studies combined movement, forms, and photography while working with dancers Margot Silver Bassett, Scott McPheeters, Taja Will and writer Andy Sturdevant.
Tracing the lines of fatigue— the dip of shoulders, oxen straining a yoke, the coil of a dropped rope— Shoulder Lines Sinking explores descending forms and shapes of exhaustion through soft sculpture and fiber installations. The exhibition was accompanied by a limited edition catalogue featuring an essay by Julia Schwadron.
November 2017, Sierra Arts, Reno NV
The East Meadow Trail was a quarter-mile interpretive trail staged at the Sagehen Creek Field Station. Subtly undermining the trust placed in "official" signage, the fifteen trail markers pointed out the objective names of plants in bloom (Giant Red Paintbrush), as well as the subjective state of the landscape (Downtrodden Grass).
August 2017, Sagehen Creek Field Station, Truckee CA
Using cotton piping and a macramé style of knotting, Groundswell was a site-specific installation enveloping and restraining a large burn pile.
August 2017, Sagehen Creek Field Station, Truckee CA
Combining research, photographs, journaled notes, and historical archives, field notes is a small publication about the Sagehen Creek Field Station and the expectations of a viewer in that landscape.
9.25 “ x 6.25”
28pp, bound, printed publication
(edition of six)
August 2017, Saghen Creek Field Station, Truckee CA
High and Dry was a site-specific installation made in collaboration with Kaitlin Bryson. Utilizing the architecture and indoor plants of the space, the installation reinserted the textures and colors of the dry, high-desert landscape back into the "oasis" of the indoor library.
July 2017, Washoe County Downtown Library, Reno NV
Installed during record snowfalls in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Between Here and There foreshortened a canvas tent with a waxed paper wall. The texture and translucency of the waxed paper mirrored the canvas tent's walls creating a dialogue that pointed to the quiet details of the tent itself.
January 2017, Sierra Nevada College campus, Incline Village NV
Canis latrans (coyote, prairie wolf, song dog) are found throughout the continental United States as well as Alaska, Canada, Mexico and parts of Central America. Seen as opportunists, a coyote's diet can range from fruit and rodents to feral cats and small livestock. Despite efforts to eradicate them, coyote populations continue to thrive in both rural and urban settings.
Ongoing photography series, Tahoe Basin and Great Basin
Hay bales and tarp printed with a facsimile page from J.M. Edmonds’ 1919 prose translations of Theocritus’ First Idyll.
Collaborative installation with Jared Stanley
January 2016, included in The Plain Sense of Things, Tahoe Gallery Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village NV
Modest Museums is an ongoing series of visits to small-town museums. Through each of those visits, observations and connections rise to the surface. This project is a collection of those thoughts; not necessarily a full survey, but rather a snapshot of each museum through a personal perspective. Modest Museums is an advocate for and celebration of the homegrown nature of these cultural institutions.
Launched in 2016 with the support of Epicenter and the Nevada Arts Council
Work created in response to Green River, UT during a four-week residency as a Frontier Fellow for Epicenter.
A Call to Place exhibition and publication
January/February 2016, Green River UT
Site-specific, soundscape installation in collaboration with musician Ben Tempchin
(film by Omar Alan Pierce )
February 2014, St. Mary's Art Center, Virginia City NV
“Any landscape is composed not only of what lies before our eyes, but what lies within our head.” D.W. Meinig
Assorted works drawing from the imagery and culture of the American West.
2013–2017, work has been included in Second Skin, Beyond Material, Tilting the Basin, and He Sank on His Haunches
