UPDATE!!!

It's been a while! I've been busy and Instagram has taken over most of my digital record-making. But there's something nice about a blog, isn't there? Something more deliberate and slow and intimate. 

Recently I have been...

* FUNDRAISING for Creating Language Through Arts. We received another grant to continue our Arts Residencies that focus on using art as a language when there are communication barriers present due to hearing loss. Our new Metropolitan Regional Arts Council grant requires that we provide some matching funds so we are fundraising left and right! If you are able to contribute (even $10!) we will be eternally grateful. You can do so HERE. (These are some of our Third grade students)



* Participating in my new fellowship. I am honored to announce that I have been selected as a fellow for Art(ists) on the Verge 7. AOV is an intensive, mentor-based fellowship program for 5 Minnesota based emerging artists working experimentally at the interstion of art and technology. Myself, along with artists Eric F. Avery, Torre Edahl, Jessica Henderson and Joshua McGarvy will participate in a year-long program that will culminate in an exhibition at The Soap Factory in the Spring of 2016. Art(ists) on the Verge is generously supported by the Jerome Foundation. 

* Exploring new media- in January of this year I created a video that has been a long time in the making. This endeavor combines my love of writing with video performance and story telling and draws heavily on my experience growing up with a profound and progressive hearing loss. You can click here to view it on vimeo. 

* Working my butt off in the studio getting ready for upcoming shows at Public Functionary and The Phipps Center. I'm focusing on larger works, and I have six in-progress 4' paintings in the studio at the moment. So far my attempts to deliberately change the way I make art has been both challenging and rewarding. Change is a heavy thing and has its own order. All I can say about these new pieces is that they feel distressed, un-done, weathered, unraveled. Maybe I need to literally demolish these pieces in order to grow?

ETSY SHOP SALE!!!

I am having a SALE in my etsy shop this month. 

Use coupon code "DECEMBER" at checkout and you'll get 20% off of your entire order.

N E W W O R K

1/ I Open and Close
Acrylic and Archival Ink on Panel
22" x 30"
2/ Nighttime Seeping into Both Sides of the Day
Acrylic and Archival Ink on Panel

18" x 18"

3/ The Morning Started in Pieces Far Out on the Water

Acrylic and Archival Ink on Panel

18" x 18"

4/ The Consistent Shuffle, the Steady Stretch

Acrylic and Archival Ink on Panel

18" x 18"

5/ To Show you Who I am I Dove Into the Sea

Acrylic and Archival Ink on Panel

16" x 20"

6/ Element XXI

Acrylic and Archival Ink on Panel

10" x 10"

7/ Element XXII

Acrylic and Archival Ink on Panel

10" x 10"

8/ Element XXIII

Acrylic and Archival Ink on Panel

10" x 10"

9/ Element XXIV

Acrylic and Archival Ink on Panel

10" x 10"

10/ Element XXV

Acrylic and Archival Ink on Panel

10" x 10"

11/ Element XXVI

Acrylic and Archival Ink on Panel

10" x 10"

12/ Element XXVII

Acrylic and Archival Ink on Panel

10" x 10"

13/ Element XXVIII

Acrylic and Archival Ink on Panel

10" x 10"

14/ Element XXIX

Acrylic and Archival Ink on Panel

10" x 10"

Coil XXV

Coil XXV
Watercolor and Gouache on Panel
12" x 12"

You can buy prints of this new Coil painting in the shop.

E L E M E N T S

Element I - XII
each is Acrylic and Archival Pen on Panel
each is 8" x 8" 

Element - 1. A part or aspect of something, esp. one that is essential or characteristic. 2. A small but significant presence of a feeling or abstract quality. 

A new series started. These first twelve have been shipped off to Nahcotta in Portsmouth, NH for their Enormous Tiny Art show!

I have prints of this new work available in my shop!

In the studio this week...

...I've been working on new pieces for an upcoming Enormous Tiny Art Show at Nahcotta.

Warmth is a red bruise

Warmth is a red bruise

5" x 7"

This is a small piece for The Mini Show at the MacRostie Art Center

New Drawing

You can buy prints here.

New Work

I just dropped these pieces off at Gallery 360 today. 

1. The movement of cells bound to light

2. The beginning of light felt like amber

3. Perched on the edge of bloom, color was not separate from sound

4. Such light inside her. It spilled out of her mouth, cutting her words in half

5. The land is a clock and time is the sea and light flows from everything in long angles

6. Waters stretch across the room of my chest

Of course, prints of the new work are available for purchase in the shop.

This is a drawing from a project I'm working on that combines my writing and drawing. 

It's a story, or a poem, really, about how falling in love changed me. 

This is just one page... it's a big project and I still have a lot of work to do. 

These images are detail shots of my work that's still currently up at the Miami International Airport.

It has been a great week so far. I received the booklets for my group show at the Miami International Airport in the mail (thank you Carrie for sending them to me!). I'm finishing up my paintings for my show at The Collector in Berkeley. And today I dropped off five of my drawings at Gallery 360.

I'm pushing forward toward a new body of work, one that combines my drawing and painting. I've attempted this in the past and it has been difficult, but this week something finally clicked and I'm excited to move forward.

New Coil paintings

I've been working on new Coil paintings for an upcoming show in California.