Education and Academic Research
2022-2024 :: Columbia University School of the Arts : MFA
2015-2019 :: Rhode Island School of Design : Undergraduate BFA
2017 :: Cross Registration at Brown University: Generative Sound Systems
2013 :: Columbia University Pre-college: Drawing
2012 :: Barnard Pre-College : Music and Cultural Anthropology
2002-2015 :: Poughkeepsie Day School
Artist statement
On Sunday afternoons I like to go to the record store. I like to wander through the rows between clusters of other customers in a collective searching. Sometimes with certain intention, and other times with just simple curiosity. I like to be included in this community unified by material obsession, a drive for a personal archive, and collection. To browse through sections, waiting for something to catch my eye, by imagery or a familiar name. Any, and every reason to listen closer. Value both questioned and determined by an authority, but also by the individual. Reclaimed, and recycled. Rare documents displayed on walls and dollar bins with unknown surprises. In a public space designed for transaction, there is a communal exchange of knowledge and taste, but also an individual listening experience: headphones and a shared turntable. Within this space of listening and reading, becomes a tracing of origins across genres. Sounds sampled, used, re-used, copied and presented recorded and (a)live.
I think of my practice in these terms. The material expressions of the things I make are interdisciplinary but in the end are always sculpture. In a work constructed of wood, no matter its finish of paint or stain, it always contains the history of the tree it once was; a sample of a song always paying homage to its original record origins.
I embrace objects as ephemeral, malleable and individual, and the space they inhabit an essential part of their meaning. The sculptures that I make exist as an artifact of the necessary intervention of the viewer or participant of the work. I am interested in the places where objecthood becomes leaky, and how this betweenness can be profound, while also playful, and even humorous. I am drawn to the places where people and objects cluster and dissipate, transform but still remain. Where the parts are still parts and they are also the whole. Where droplets of rain gather on uneven surfaces to become a puddle, and where the strangers of a train car sit shoulder to shoulder before departing at their stops. Where a handrail becomes a playground slide for a skateboard, and the jar where a cucumber transforms into a pickle. Where notes become a song and the quiet is a volume of its own.
Selected Exhibitions
2022 In Medias Res
theBlanc Gallery, New York NY
Columbia MFA First Year's Show
The Wallach Gallery, New York NY
2021 Boundless Loops
SFA Projects, New York NY
LOVE
Summer Street Collective, Providence RI
2019 EXIT
Exit Galleries, Boston MA
SE ACULILLÓ? | PRIMXS/ES | MAG-PINSAN | COUSINS
The Center For Reconciliation, Providence RI
Bye Bye
41 Meeting Street, Providence RI
Welcome to My Show
Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence RI
2018 In the Mood for Love
Gelman Gallery at RISD Museum, Providence RI
Paris Plus Friends
233 Westminster St, Providence RI
Vista Panoramica
Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh NY
RISD Sculpture Triennale
Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence RI
2017 + Friends Pop Up Shop
The Wurks, Providence RI
the Jam (Exhibition and Commission)
Providence RI
Lost & Exhibition
Gelman Gallery at RISD Museum, Providence RI
NEWBURGH OPEN STUDIOS - 2017
Newburgh, NY
PVD Field Day
Providence RI
PVD Fest
Providence RI
The Wurks Art Expo
Providence RI
Teran Studio: Black and White Gala
Newburgh, NY
2016 RISD ARTIST BOOK COMPETITION
Rhode Island School of Design Fleet Library, Providence, RI
2015 ART ABOUT WATER
Newburgh NY
2014 Heal Haiti Benefit Events
Poughkeepsie, NY
2013 Beacon Artist Union National Exhibition: Apocalypse
Beacon, NY
2012 Garrison Art Center's National Exhibition: PHOTOcentric
Garrison, NY