Artist bio

I am an artist hailing from the green, swampy lands of north Florida, where I earned my BFA with a concentration in printmaking from the University of Florida. I spent four years in San Antonio, Texas working for StoneMetal Press and the Southwest School of Art and Craft as a teacher and assistant for printmaking classes, helping to promote fine art printmaking and education through the arts. Iʼm currently in my second year of graduate studies in printmaking at the Univeristy of South Dakota.

Artist statement

My work is influenced by the relationship between body and land, and the language of identification for both. I utilize map imagery to examine a visual connection between our physical bodies and human interactions with the environment. Related issues in my work are memory, death, sexuality and their interconnectedness throughout my experience. These experiences are often the catalyst for new work. Symbolism and an exploration of personal memory combine to create the referent to events, places, people, and smells. As an artist, I attempt to catalog, identify, or dissect the world around me through the media of print.