The term "natural world" implies a cultural notion of a place in which humans are somehow not a part.
This ideological partition seems to run parallel with
some of the seemingly endless conflicts among people. The subtleties of
segregation, conquest, bigotry, all seem apparent in Western interpretations of
indoors vs. outdoors, civilization vs. wilderness, or master vs. pet.
Domestication, enforcement, and the desire to control
the land, the water and the animals have a very ominous connection to the way
any civilization domesticates it's own constituents.
I examine this relationship by mixing familiar
representations of interior and exterior as a way to blend and obscure
conventional ideas of home, food, community, ownership and survival.
Education Fifth year Certificate, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2006 Diploma in Studio Art, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2005 Associates Degree, Art Institute of Pittsburgh, 1998
Exhibitions
•SMFA Traveling Scholars, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 2008 •SMFA Film and Video Annual, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 2005; Juried exhibition •Connecting Our Thoughts, The Gallery at Selletto, Boston, MA 2005; Group exhibition •SMFA Student Annual, Boston, MA 2003; Honorable mention in juried group exhibition •Making a Scene, Pittsburgh, PA 2001; Community oriented group installation and performance •Dark Night Cabaret, Pittsburgh, PA 2001; Featured artist for monthly event •Aliquippa Embraces Art, Aliquippa, PA 2001; Community oriented installation exhibition •Boxheart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA 2001; Group exhibition •Unblurred, Spinning Plate Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA 2001; Group exhibition •Portraits of Essence, Horizons Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA 2001; Group exhibition
