statement

The majority of Graehound's latest two-dimensional work is an attempt to reconcile multiple styles, media, and emotions in a distillation of personal perspective featuring often curious, bizarre, or disturbing subject matter that deals with disability and the loss of control associated with it. Systems that break fascinate and frustrate her. She creates as catharsis on a level accessible and receptive of others' equally confused understandings of their bodies and the spaces they occupy without demanding or necessitating their inclusion and acceptance. She seeks to make drawings that embody a literal abstracted sense of self and selflessness...with some intestines thrown in for good measure.

bio

born: 1990, Normal, Illinois

education

Northern Illinois University, BFA, 2013

selected awards/honors

Best In Show, Starline Gallery: Every Artist Has a Story, Harvard, Illinois, 2013
Award of Merit/Showcard Image, Tubac Center of the Arts: Arizona Aqueous XXVII, Tubac, Arizona, 2013

selected publications

International Contemporary Artists; Vol. IX, New York, New York: ICA Publishing
Pacific Review; Spring 2014 Strangely Ever After, San Diego, California: San Diego State University, 2014
Permafrost Magazine; 36.1, Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2014
Owen Wister Review; 2014, Laramie, Wyomning: University of Wyoming, 2014

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Kraft-Thomson Allstate Agency Gallery, NWCC Spring Exhibition Solo, Arlington Heights, Illinois, 2015
Rolling Meadows Library, NWCC Autumn Exhibition Solo, Rolling Meadows, Illinois, 2014
The Art Box Gallery, Innerverse, DeKalb, Illinois, 2013
The Annex Studios, Nosce te ipsum, DeKalb, Illinois, 2012

selected group shows

Union Street Art Gallery, Journey, Chicago Heights, Illinois, 2015
Starline Gallery, Sticks & Stones, Harvard, Illinois, 2014
Limner Gallery, EA14: Emerging Artists Exhibit 2014, Hudson, New York, 2014
Clatsop Art Center Gallery, Au Naturel 2014, Astoria, Oregon, 2014