Painting
INTERSPACE ENCOUNTERS: PARKVIEW GARDENS
2016
Interspace Encounters: Parkview Gardens reflects my experiences responding to the urban environment. Images were taken from a one-mile radius of my apartment in the Parkview Gardens neighborhood in University City, Missouri. The more I walked this area the more I trained my eye to notice the complexities and subtleties of the spaces. The series is both a representation of the physical space and my movement through it. Photographs and paintings come together in varied arrangements to invoke a disjointed sensibility of being outside in a negotiated space.
ILHABELLA
2017
A series of artworks created in Ilhabela, Brazil painted with natural pigments sourced from the island’s soil, rocks, flowers, plants, and local spices as well as traditional oil paints. The series was created during the month-long Casa Na Ilha Artist in Residency Program in September 2017.
RECIPROCAL LANDSCAPES: BURREN
2017
This series came about during my residency in at the Burren College of Art in Co. Claire, Ireland. I used the images I collected from my walks to create paintings that materialized the experience of what I saw. I then brought the paintings back outside to the places of inspiration and photographed them in context. It became a phenomenological practice of bringing something into being.
BACKYARD EFFECTS
2018
Taken from the book Ordinary Affects by Kathleen Stewart, this series revisits the familiar space of my childhood home in a “grown-up” and different perspective. Blurred photography and abstract oil painting come together to pick up where the other leaves off. Backyard Effects is an exploration of the essence, movement, experience, and memory of a place.
COLOR STUDIES
DAY DRIVES + NIGHT WALKS
2022
Day drives, night walks is a series of artworks inspired by my activities living within an urban landscape. Abstract oil paintings focus on colors studied from the field. Red-orange swatches of pigments are sourced from construction sites. Blue-purple streaks rubbings from the skins of store-bought berries. With pigments sourced from the land and synthetic paint tubes, the paintings explore color found in and around nature. Flat works on a thin vinyl material employ painting and photography to explore a mediated space between reality and my experience of it. The blurred deep-blue photographs paired with brushy paintings replicate a sense of vision that is always adjusting and re-focusing. Through framing and reframing, I move closer to identifying a contemporary ideology of landscape representations to define my personal relationship to the landscapes I encounter.
LONGFELLOW
2023
Longfellow is an ongoing series of works of abstract paintings and photographs that reflect the colors and experience of being on a walk through the Longfellow Heights neighborhood in Kansas City. The works incorporate oil painting, natural pigments, lens distortion digital photography, and collaged findings from the urban environment.
UNFOCUSED
CURRENT
Unfocused reframes the tradition of landscape representation through liminal spaces of everyday, overlooked spaces that look beyond the calm and stable cadence of traditional landscape representations. The works fall in and out of focus through painting and photography to capture moments of investigating, translating, navigating, and considering an uncertain and unstable future.