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Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
United States
| Themes of illness, mortality, and intimacy pervade much of my recent work. My drawings, paintings, and wax sculptures are inspired by dispassionate photographs of human dissections culled from medical literature, that are at times combined with photorealist renderings of still life photography and my own written meditations on love and death. Many of the works incorporate the layering of translucent media, such as vellum and wax. I feel that using translucent materials helps me to investigate the often inarticulable experiences of love and loss by enabling me to explore the interplay between interior and exterior space. Simultaneously, this process of investigation allows me to explore my own fascination with the unseen spaces and processes of the body.
Ultimately, my hope is that the work gives rise to questions of ontology, rather than explanations of physiology. Excavating these subcutaneous spaces forces me to confront my own fear and awe of the unknown and the uncontrollable.... |
| Upcoming Exhibition
My work will be featured in The Alcove Gallery's inaugural exhibition, entitled Within , March 3rd-31st here in Boston.
The opening is on Saturday, March 3rd, from 6-9pm. | | 12 x 12 Holiday Show
I have a piece on display in the current exhibition:
12 x 12 Holiday Show
December 1-18, 2010
Bromfield Gallery
450 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02118
www.bromfieldgallery.com
The work will be on display until December 18th. | | "The Space Between Hours" at Diego Rivera Gallery
SF locals: Although I will be unable to attend, a number of my drawings and artist book, "Hollows," will be on view in the following exhibition.
The Space Between Hours
Diego Rivera Gallery
San Francisco Art Institute
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA
The show will be up July 26-31, with an opening reception on Tuesday, July 28 from 5-7pm (artist talk at 4:30pm). Julie Mallozzi, Elizabeth Pedinotti and I will all be exhibiting work that is in some way autobiographical. | | An Exhibition on Love (Bring Your Valentine!)
Sweet and Matchless
February 9th –March 5th
PLAySPACE Gallery, 1111 8th St., 2nd Floor, San Francisco
Opening Reception: Monday, February 9th, 7 –9 PM
Using the love letter as a point of departure, Sweet and Matchless brings together various expressions of love—from romantic love to the affinities and complexities of families and friendships. | | At San Francisco's Literary Festival, Litquake 2008
Saturday, October 4, 8 pm
A Night of “Intimacy” With the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto
The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 3200 California Street
$22 General Admission/$20 JCCSF Members
Followed by reception 9:30-10:30 pm
Tickets available at: http://www.jccsf.org/content_main.aspx?catid=537#2550
Grotto Nights is back with “Intimacy”—a multimedia extravaganza of tight genes, body fluids, and misplaced affections. |
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