My work renegotiates personal authenticity within social structures, with a strong curiosity for the moments when things don’t quite add up. I test the limits and possibilities of fiction through transdisciplinary media including text, video, photography, sculpture, performance, and sound, and with the installation of familiar yet surreal spaces, such as a vintage medical clinic replicated as a stage for participatory experience. While my method can be playful, occasionally using proxy and interactive performance, archival strategies and codified systems are crucial components. I also enjoy collaborating with researchers in scientific disciplines. Underpinnings of my art include regression, technology, gender, control, and layered omission.
CatLady Lioness – 2011 – Performance self-portrait; archival inkjet print Dimensions variable
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education MFA in Creative Writing, San Francisco State University; BA in Sociology/Anthropology/ Studio Art, Syracuse University; BA in English Literature, Tulane University MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, 2012