I find drawing to be a very unassuming practice that is simultaneously quiet, yet engaging. It offers a kind of meditative space for me as I find myself relaxing "into" a drawing. Drawing allows time for reflection, imagination, and mental wandering - all of which I find to be fundamentally spiritual activities.

These drawings are a part of a body of works dealing with the domestic experience of living in a home, raising children, taking naps, doing the laundry, sweeping the floor. Through contemporary genre scenes, I am exploring how the daily domestic task and environment is both shaped by an individual and, in return, serves to shape that individual. The repetitive actions of the domestic narrative become rituals that order and form our identities over time. While often overlooked, these domestic activities develop a subtle spirituality of place cultivated by the comings and goings of a home. These drawings are seeking to capture a moment, or pause, in the domestic narrative that allow the viewer to consider how they have been shaped by similar moments.

 

born: 1973, Ohio

education

University of Cincinnati, BFA, (Graduating 2007)
Cincinnati Christian University, MA, 1998
Cincinnati Christian University, BS, 1995

selected awards/honors

John L. Magro Award
Wolfstein Award

selected group shows

Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center: It's In Your Head, Cincinnati, OH, 2007
Essex Gallery: SummerFair Emerging Artists Exhibition, Cincinnati, OH, 2007
Philip M. Meyers, Jr. Memorial Gallery: Here, Cincinnati, OH, 2006
Southgate House Gallery: Gloss Me Up, Newport, KY, 2006