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About

CV

Education

  • 2017-19 MFA, Fine Art (Media), with distinction, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, England. Awarded the Julian Sullivan Award for achievement in Fine Art Media.

  • 1981-85 BA, English Literature, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA.

Selected Shows

  • Frame Work: an archive of images posted by sellers of antique mirrors on eBay, 2018 - 2021, part of “Re-sourced,” School of Visual Arts Flatiron Gallery, New York City, June 2022.

  • Bird Brain (DMX-controlled sculpture, sound and light installation) as part of the Slade Graduate Degree Show, 2019, Slade School of Fine Art, London.

  • Class Notes (15 A1 pigment photographic prints) as part of FastForward Women in Photography, Slade Research Centre, UCL, London, April 2019. I co-curated this show.

  • The Life You Save May be Your Own (cine-roman) as part of Bite the Bullet, Barbican Arts Group Trust, Art Works Project Space, London, February 2019.

  • Wunderkammer, a proposal. UCL Donor Wall Shortlist Exhibition, Slade School of Fine Art, September 2018.

  • I Wake Up Screaming (one twenty-four-foot pigment print) School of Visual Art (SVA) Summer Residency, New York, August 2015.

STATEMENT

I am a conceptual multimedia artist, making work that investigates and archives the unseen, the overlooked, and the ineffable.    I create spaces for interactive experiences that incorporate sculpture, photography, sound, and light.  My interest is in our contact with otherness ---between our organizing sensing body and things in the world—and to probe the layer of lived experience through which this encounter is made.     

 Recent projects include Frame Work, an archive of 1500 images posted by sellers of used mirrors on eBay, gathered from 2018 through 2022(shown at the School of Visual Arts Flatiron Gallery, June 2022).  I have also created several bodies of work connected to my research into Emily Dickinson’s manuscripts as visual productions, focusing on her overlooked visual poetics.  (I presented my research and my work, July 2022, at the International Emily Dickinson Society decennial conference at the Universidad de Sevilla.)  These include Groove, a series of kinetic sculptures replicating the “physics” of Dickinson’s poems that use the word brain;  Shaft, a collection of maps of Dickinson’s manuscripts in the style of Orra White Hitchcock, a 19th century maker of geologic maps and computer gaming maps;  and Recallless, a data piece that analyses Dickinson’s use of identical consecutive letters. 

 Earlier works include the DMX controlled, sculptural installation Bird Brain, (shown as part of the Slade School of Art graduate degree show, 2019).  Bird Brain replicates the dynamic interaction of large-scale brain networks in the process of making metaphor.   Bird Brain included four modified turntables, able to spin at variable speeds and directions, mixing live sound.