Artist Bio
I’ve spent years trying to figure out who I am as an artist. In this search, I have moved all over the United States seeking out forms and techniques - both old and new - as a means to study art. Initially, when I was younger, I pursued a classical education in New England as I had hoped to join the vanguard of a new figurative movement in art. I spent years drawing and sculpting from life, studying anatomy, and casting the human form. While I still love it – and consider it my home – I came to realize there was an absence for me in that singular pursuit. After some time and a few life-changing events, I moved to Chicago to pursue graduate studies in sculpture and sound art. While there I discovered that I could still sculpt the body, only this time without representative forms. Sound would become the vehicle for describing the world in which our bodies existed, and would become an experiment in just how close I could represent form through sound.
Currently, I am an associate professor of sculpture at Central Michigan University where I continue to pursue the dual goals of art-making and educating art-makers. I've exhibited work all over the country, notably at the New Museum in NYC, The National Arts Club in NYC, The National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) where I received my MFA. I was also a long-listed artist at the Aesthetica Art Prize in York, UK, and a semi-finalist in the 2022 Outwin Boochever National Portrait Competition at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC.