creative works
I produce constructed habitats, intuitively investigating multiple forms and utilizing unpredictable materials to elude conventional interpretations. These forms are physical and intimate reactions to selected sites, disrupting and transforming the passive spectator into an active participant.
The locus of my work lies in the psychological contests in which I find myself engaged, and the desire to evaluate the human condition and emotion in its most elemental and vulnerable states; a concoction of truths and parodies. I am intrigued by the relationship between humans, nature and machines, and the tensions created by the struggle for dominance amongst these three. Creating bizarre environments by deconstructing familiar forms, I seek to confront the viewer with an altered reality- a reality combining beauty and repulsiveness, the mundane and the arcane.
Through the use of unconventional materials and the element of play, I instigate a redesigned tactile iconography of satirical excess. With the intention of presenting a subtle line between kitsch and aesthetic skepticism, humor and faint familiarity become important catalysts for ambiguity and contradiction within my fabricated habitats.
selective exhibitions
2012
- 13th Annual WAH Art Club Show, Group Show, Williamsburg Art and Historical
Center, Brooklyn, NY
2011
- Odd Cities 2, Group Show, 2nd Floor Connector Gallery, Flying Monkey Arts
Center, Huntsville, AL
- pARTy, Group Show, Fundraiser for The Arts Council, Huntsville, AL
- Alabama’s Finest, Group Show, Gadsden Museum of Art, Gadsden, AL
- K.I.D. Artist Collective Group Show, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
- Monte Sano Arts Show, Monte Sano Mountain, Huntsville, AL
- PULP-Works on Paper, Works with Paper, Group Show, Beta Pictoris Maus
Contemporary Gallery, Birmingham, AL
- Aids Action Coalition Art Auction, Group Show, Hudson Alpha Center,
Huntsville, AL
- Art From Detritus, Group Show, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
- Recycled Art Show, Group Show, Flying Monkey Arts Center, Huntsville, AL
- Heart Project, Group Show, Central Penn University, Harrisburg, PA
- Lab-AD art+design, Group Show (Featured Artist), New Studio A.D., Albuquerque, NM
- Visual Reponse to the Gulf Oil Disaster, Group Show, The Big Muddy Independent Media Center, Carbondale, IL
2010
- Canvas Project, Group Show, Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY
- Art From Detritus, Group Show, Viridian Artists, Chelsea, NYC
- Snap to Grid, Group Show, LACDA, Los Angeles, CA
- pARTy, Group Show, Fundraiser for Arts Council, Huntsville, AL
- Tennessee Valley Art Teacher Exhibition, Group Show, 1st Floor Gallery, Lowe Mill Arts, Huntsville, AL
- The Visual Response to the Gulf Oil Disaster, Group Show, 2nd Floor Connector Gallery, The Flying Monkey Arts Center, Huntsville, AL
- UNA University, Solo Show, UNA Art Gallery, Florence, AL
- Monte Sano Art Show, Monte Sano Mountain, Huntsville, AL
- Faculty Show, Wilson Hall Art Gallery, UAH Campus, Huntsville, AL
- AREA 47 K.I.D. Arts Collective, Group Show, Huntsville, AL,
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Mark Marchlinski’s Student’s Show, Group Show, UAH Salmon Library, Huntsville, AL
- Art From Detritus, Group Show, Pure Light Gallery, Turner’s Falls, MA
- Dining With Friends, Group Show, NASA Space Center, Huntsville, AL
- Imagine Tomorrow, Group Show, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
- What Frightens You? And The Visual Response to the Gulf Oil Disaster,
Group Show, Landslide Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009
- 12X12X122, Group Show, (Featured Artist), BECA Gallery, New Orleans, LA
- Recycled Art Show, Flying Monkey Arts Center, Huntsville, AL
- Faculty Show, Bevill Center, UAH Campus, Huntsville, AL
- Project 9, Solo Show, Gallery Stroll at Flying Monkey Arts Center, Huntsville, AL
2008
- Solo Show, Renaissance Theatre, Huntsville, AL
- Project 9 Opening, Solo Show, Gallery Stroll at Flying Monkey Arts Center, Huntsville, AL
- Faculty Show, UAH Center, Huntsville, AL
- pARTy, Group Show, Huntsville, AL
- Recycled Art Show, Flying Monkey Arts Center, Huntsville, AL
- Panoply, Big Spring Park, Huntsville, AL
- Faculty Show, Presidents Office, UAH Campus, Huntsville, AL
2007
- The Blue Show, Flying Monkey Arts Center, Huntsville, AL
- Recycled Art Show, Flying Monkey Arts Center, Huntsville, AL
- Project 9, Solo Show, Gallery Stroll at Flying Monkey Arts Center, Huntsville, AL
- Faculty Show, UAH Center, Huntsville, AL
2006
- Recycled Art Show, Flying Monkey Arts Center, Huntsville, AL
- Monte Sano Arts Show, Monte Sano Mountain, Huntsville, AL
2005
- Internim, Tulca, Galway, Ireland
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MFA Degree Show, The Gallery,Ballyvaughan, Ireland
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Shifting Ideas, Quadrangle Gallery,Galway, Ireland
2004
- Drawn from the Burren, Quadrangle Gallery,Galway, Ireland
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1st Year End Exhibition, Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland
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10th Anniversary Celebration, Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland
2003
- Senior Exodus Show, Union Grove Gallery, Huntsville, AL
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Student Group Show, University Gallery,Huntsville, AL
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Carnegie Opening Gala, Carnegie Arts Center, Decatur, AL
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Group Show, A&M University Gallery,Huntsville, AL
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Dining with Friends, Aids Action Coalition Fundraiser, Huntsville, AL
2002
- Recycled Art Show, Renaissance Theatre, Huntsville, AL
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Group Exhibition, Union Grove Gallery, Huntsville, AL
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10th Annual Gallery Tour, Union Grove Gallery, Huntsville, AL
