After receiving an MFA in Sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute, I spent decades in California as both an artist and non-profit gallery director, but eventually returned to my Rust Belt roots and relocated to Cleveland. Over the past 10 years this geographic relocation has also radically expanded my approach to artmaking as I took a headlong dive into combining historical research into new and experimental works that mesh photography with sculpture and textiles via hands-on crafting processes. Recent projects include “Industry Unraveled”, a photo/textile study of abandoned manufacturing sites throughout the Rust Belt; followed by “Incarceration: Solitary Objects” a photo/textile project that investigated a condemned prison in Ohio; and a current textile/sculpture project titled “Stories about Stories” based on childhood memories of rural Mississippi. In combination, these works function as experiential responses to locations where I have previously lived and ultimately left a lingering impression on me.
I received a Joan Mitchell Emerging Artist Award in addition to multiple Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards. My work has been recently presented at Transformer Station, SHED Projects, Ft. Wayne Museum of Art, Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery, the Fuller Craft Museum, Jack Fischer Gallery and the Rust Belt Biennial. I was an artist-in-resident at Yaddo in 2024, at the Wurlitzer Foundation in 2023 and at the Joan Mitchell Center in 2022. I’ve also had residencies at MASSMoCA, the California Academy of Sciences, Santa Fe Art Institute and Djerassi Resident Artists Program. My work has been reviewed in Art in America, San Francisco Chronicle, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Photograph Magazine, Art Papers, and Temporary Art Review amongst others.
I live in an historic village near Cleveland, Ohio.