Drawing is a way of working that allows one to experience the history of creating an image. It involves a search for form and content within the actions of mark making and erasing. It embraces play and movement while finding itself rooted in its own experience.

However, drawing is also about navigating time and imagination. It is a way of visually recording a process that allows one to see into the gestation of an idea. It is a way of mapping thought and providing a window into the act of making.

Because of the transparency that this process provides, drawing creates a present-ness that imbues life to an otherwise unrealized or static space. Through drawing, I design ephemeral structures that are the result of this present-ness. I create spaces that exist between the imagined concept and its manifestation.

The drawings I create begin as gestures, loose maps that lead to a form of schematic abstraction. I employ scale, movement, color and line as navigational devices that decode the structures that emerge from this process.
However, the image ultimately becomes the bi-product of the drawing. It exists as the result of a search for content. Therefore, drawing acts as the translation between the initial impetus behind an action and the end product of a realized idea.

My drawings are orthographic projections of imaginary design that become cartograms for a psychological drawing experience yet the content of there being resides in the history of there creation.

born: 1978, Montgomery, Alabama

education

University of North Carolina at Greensboro, MFA, 2004
Reinhardt College, BFA, 2002

selected awards/honors

Resident Artist: Vermont Studio Center / Full Fellowship Award, 2005
Resident Artist: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 2004
Resident Artist: Vermont Studio Center / Gregory Ivy and Hester/Deblasio Art Fund award, 2004

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Fincher Arts Center at Reinhardt College: Holding Hands with Mortality, Waleska, GA. 2002
Gallery 100 at the Woodruff Arts Center: Referencing Perspective, Atlanta, GA. 2000

selected group shows

John Fonda Gallery: Why You Can't Refold a Map, Baltimore, MD. 2004
Rosenberg Gallery at Goucher College: Generally, Longer Than It Is Wide, Baltimore, MD. 2004
Gallery 4: Axioms, Baltimore, MD. 2004
H. Lewis Gallery: Properties, Baltimore, MD. 2003