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I strive to build interactive sculptures that create a personal
experience of visual discovery. Generating the emotional thrill that
arises with the ideas of “without” and “within,” each viewer has the
opportunity to develop a relationship with the work, just as a
reader creates a relationship with the cover of a book and its
infinitely more subtle and variable contents.
Using glass, ceramic, wood and non-silver photography together not
only generates ideas new to each medium, but makes it possible for
me to express a variety of complex and intimate connections between
the viewer and the work. As the sense of touch is utilized, a
plethora of textures and visuals creates the gateway to a deeper
sense of intimacy not only with the work itself but with the ideas
it expresses.
My work is inspired by architecture, mythologies, icons, poetry,
and literature. By piecing together form, text, and image I attempt
to investigate connections between the innermost human spirit and
nature. This union of soul and surface illuminates the complex
relationship that creates the differences, and the similarities,
between what is without and what is within.
Date & Place of Birth
1982, Albuquerque, NM
Education:
2007: Bachelor of
Fine Arts, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Exhibitions:
2008:
Illumination, solo exhibition, Matrix Fine Art, Albuquerque, NM
2007: Under
500, Matrix Fine Art, Albuquerque, NM
Overture,
Matrix Fine Art, Albuquerque, NM
Curiosities, Honors Thesis
Solo Exhibition, Yale Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
2006: A Step
Forward, Woodward Medical Center, Albuqueruqe, NM
Eleven, Yale Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
La Vida, Student Health Center, UNM, Albuquerque, NM
2004: Anagama
Opening, Children's Workshop, Madrid, NM
Awards:
2007: Rachel Allen
Printmaking Scholarship, New Grounds Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
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