My creative foundations are my back-to-the-lander roots courtesy of my childhood in rural North Florida and Vermont, early 2000s crunk rap, the Space Hijackers’ art as activism, Bread and Puppet and the King Mango Strut’s art as parade and circus, Adbusters, and queer culture.
My work explores texture and handmade mark-making in repeats. Each is an expression of the imprints that landscapes make on me. Sand and lime paints are natural extensions from landscapes I’ve had my most expansive revelations in: windswept West Texas, the bright saturated skies and mountains of New Mexico and Colorado, the coasts of California.
I grew up in a town with 27 lakes and one stoplight, in a home my parents designed and built by hand. But I left the south for college to study art at Dartmouth, and lived in VT, NY, Michigan, Austin, and SF, before moving to LA.
EDUCATION
2005 BA in Studio Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA - Leslie Humanities Center Grant Recipient, Phoenix Senior Society
2006 Licensed Avatar® teacher training (mindfulness and self development), Florida, USA
2007 1 semester of MFA in Print/Media, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA - Daimler Chrysler Scholar Award
2011 University of Texas at Austin, Summer Architecture Intensive, Austin, Texas, USA
2013 Austin Center for Design, Interaction Design and Social Entrepreneurship, Austin, Texas, USA
2021 Google Rare Leadership Academy, Online
RESIDENCIES
2026 March 2-20 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, USA
2027 (forthcoming) Studio Kura, Fukuoka, Japan