Bodies of Work

I am an artist through everyday practice. At times, I bring longterm intention toward making work. These bodies of work communicates research through a series of decision.

Locker Room Talk

November to January 2016, I exhibited with longtime friend and collaborator Caroline Claflin at Chicago's Comfort Station in Logan Square. For this show I created a series of work entitled Locker Room Talk. Three sculptures each held by fragments of lockers, and built using materials from demolished home. 

Residual Matter

Over two years, I payed to master fine arts. The final work I presented as my MFA thesis was titled "ResidualMatter" for the MFA show in Sullivan Galleries April 29th to May 18th. This work asks five people to maintain conversation while literally holding the weight of a trunk of tree fallen by the emerald ash bore. The weight is distributed over bonded fragments of desks and chair from the 2013 closure of 49 Chicago Public Schools. Cotton rope runs through all of the elements allowing our forces to hold the weight.

Kinesthetic Knowledge Acts

prologue: tools
act one: blackness & mark making
act two: the case of betty and acts upon the tree
epilogue: maintenance & constructed site
appendix"
2015
utilized Emerald Ash from Nichols Park, Nupastel on Masonite, chisel forged as pitching wedge, welded steal, collected remains of studio practice, previously used materials: ballpeen hammer, pitching wedge, mason hammer head, double sided ax.
These exist as documents of performative acts to learn from the knowledge offered by Fred Moten in his reading of “Blackness and Nonperformance” on Sept 25, 2015 at MoMA as part of Afterlives: The Persistence of Performance