June 13, 2024
Testimonial for the James Weldon Johnson Foundation Fellowship.A work-in-progress, my altered copy of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.
May 14, 2023
I'm thrilled to share that I have been awarded a James Weldon Johnson Foundation Fellowship in the Arts! I will be in residence at Simon's Rock-Bard College in Great Barrington, Massachusetts for two weeks in June along with four other Fellows - Rachel Eskin Fisher, JUNNY Ann Hibbert, Pete Malinverni, and Pamela Woolford.
www.jamesweldonjohnson.org/meet-the-art…May 3, 2022
Leaf is Folding and Unfolding (Quartet) (2022) was selected for MIMIC: Works about Replication and Simulation, a group exhibition at Manifest Creative Research Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio.
May 27th - June 24th, 2022
MY STATEMENT FOR THE SHOW:
"I develop projects by starting with works on or of paper, turning to three-dimensional objects, then extending the images and forms to performances in space and time, documented as digital prints and video. I consider representational imagery and abstract formal elements as equally potent conveyors of emotion, meaning, message, and ideas. I remain inspired by Cezanne’s claim: “...right now a moment of time is passing! [The artist] must become that moment.”From an autumn walk I returned home with a fallen leaf. Covid seemed to render the season particularly beautiful and affectingly brief, the single leaf emblematic of both attributes. I felt powerfully inspired to possess that leaf! I unfolded and folded, crushed and crumpled, then tore the edges of a brown paper bag, until it resembled a leaf. I then drew the leaf’s image in pencil on a separate sheet of white paper. As I observed the actual leaf, holding it between my fingers by its stem, twirling and turning it, engaged by contemplation, I videotaped the movements. I set the leaf down on the wooden floor of my study, and let it go.
Later, in the process of editing the digitally recorded leaf studies and altering the duration of transitions between segments of video, I discovered completely unexpected superimposed images that I immediately “grabbed” as screenshots. The short-lived ‘film-stills’ seen in Leaf is Folding and Unfolding (Quartet) are my attempt to seize the beauty of the autumn leaf and recapitulate the brevity of the season, as I experienced it on my walk.
In the spirit of both Cezanne’s claim and Chuang Tzu’s paradoxical question - “...I dreamt I was a butterfly, or am I now a butterfly dreaming I am a man?” - I ask: during these passing moments, did I possess a leaf, or did a leaf possess me?
January, 19, 2022
A slide talk and conversation with Paula Burleigh and Barbara Kendrick, presented in conjunction with LINE, a group exhibition at the Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University, PA. The full recording is available here:
The exhibition, curated by Lisa Austin, Professor of Sculpture and Gallery Director at Edinboro, is inspired by Bridget Riley's Print No. 7 in the Bruce Gallery's permanent collection.
Catalog with essays by Charlotte Wellman, Associate Professor of Art History at Edinboro University and Paula Burleigh, Assistant Professor of Art History and Director of Galleries at Allegheny College with publications in The Brooklyn Rail, ArtForum, et. Al.
October 1st, 2021
This fall I'm delighted to be participating in a group show at Edinboro University's Bruce Gallery in Erie, Pennsylvania. The exhibition, curated by Lisa Austin, Gallery Director and Professor of Sculpture at Edinboro, will be accompanied by a catalogue written by Paula Burleigh, Assistant Professor of Art History and Curator at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania.
Fellow artist Barbara Kendrick and I will be in conversation with Paula Burleigh Wednesday, November 17th, 2021, 6:30-7:30pm.
Bruce Gallery
October 8th - February 4th, 2022
Closing Reception: February 4th, 5-7pmJuly 8th - July 15th, 2021 - Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
Over the past two weeks I met and interacted with a great group of people while participating in an online workshop taught by the amazing Ben Denzer at the Center for Book Arts in Manhattan.
I made my first stab bind book from brown paper grocery bags. I crushed and crumpled, then carefully un-crumpled, one could say 'rehabilitated', each bag which became a page in a pandemic 'story'.
Through photographs and videos I documented the process of making the book then compiled and edited it all in iMovie.
Check out one of Ben Denzer's websites below where, among an array of playful, experimental projects, he included my A Paper Bag is a Page in a Pandemic 'Story' of a Book is a Movie.
November 21, 2020 - Now Available: "The Earth Of" Book...
ARTS LETTERS & NUMBERS
Averill Park, NY"The Earth Of arose from the global pandemic that called a halt to Arts Letters & Numbers’ residency programs in early 2020. A new strategy was necessary to pursue the objective of creative investigation across disciplines, genres, generations and cultural origins. The Earth Of was part online writing workshop, part collaborative research, motivated by a range of working methods in visual art, performance, poetry, architecture, and philosophy. The question became how to integrate into these disparate creative processes the escalating sense of rupture that defines this moment. This anthology is the result."
July 7, 2020
ARTS LETTERS & NUMBERS
Averill Park, NYI'm pleased to be participating in The Earth Of, a virtual residency directed by Ginger Teppner, “an online experiment with language and form in search of a novel expression beyond the veneer. Writers and artists will come together to go deep, discuss and share their works and experiences.”
July 6th - July 31st, 2020
www.artslettersandnumbers.com/the-earth…September 1, 2019
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND ART GALLERY
College Park, Maryland
Glances from Infinity: Faculty Exhibition
September 5 - November 30, 2018WASHINGTON PROJECT FOR THE ARTS AUCTION GALA
Uline Arena
1140 3rd St NE, 4th floor
Washington, D.C.
April 21, 2018
www.wpadc.org/events/auction-gala-2018SMITH CENTER FOR HEALING
AND THE ARTS
JOAN HISAOKA GALLERY
1632 U St NW, Washington, DC 20009
Alchemical Vessels 2018: OUR COMMON THREAD
March 18 - May 6, 2018
OPENING RECEPTION:
Saturday, March 18th, 7:00-9:00 pmTHE DRAWING CENTER
35 Wooster Street
New York, NY 10013
Participant in Torkwase Dyson's Wynter-Wells Drawing School for Environmental Justice, Facilitated by Mario Gooden and Oscar Rene Cornejo
March 2nd, 2018
drawingcenter.org/exhibitions/winter-te…GATEWAY ARTS DISTRICT
WINTER OPEN STUDIOS
E-Z Storage Studios
4303 Rhode Island Ave.
Brentwood, MD 20722
Studio #102 (rear of building)
Saturday, December 9th, 2017
12:00 - 4:00pmPYRAMID ATLANTIC ART CENTER
4318 Gallatin Street
Hyattsville, MD, 20781
Annual Juried Members’ Exhibition
February 3rd - March 3rd, 2017
OPENING RECEPTION & REMARKS:
February 4th, 2:00-4:00pm
Juror: Joann Moser,
Senior Curator of Graphic Arts Emerita,
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
pyramidatlanticartcenter.orgSMITH CENTER FOR HEALING
AND THE ARTS
JOAN HISAOKA GALLERY
1632 U St NW, Washington, DC 20009
Alchemical Vessels 2016
March 18 - May 6, 2016
OPENING RECEPTION:
Saturday, March 18th, 7:00-9:00 pm
www.smithcenter.org/arts-healing/joan-h…PORTRAIT-PORTRAYAL-PORTAL
39th Street Gallery
3901 Rhode Island Ave
Brentwood, MD 20722
March 12 – April 23, 2016
Opening Reception:
Saturday, March 12th, 5:00-8:00 pm
www.39thstreetgallery.comIN THE REALM OF FORMS
Pearl Conard Art Gallery
The Ohio State University
Mansfield Campus
Monday, November 9th – Tuesday, December 8th, 2015
Opening Reception and Curator’s Talk:
Monday, November 9th, 2015 from 12:35 – 1:30 pm
u.osu.edu/kennedy.28/category/art/IMPLICIT BIAS
Smith Center for Healing and the Arts
Joan Hisaoka Gallery and
Busboys and Poets, Washington, D.C.
Opening Reception: September 18th
September 18th - December 5th, 2015
www.smithcenter.org/arts-healing/joan-h…BRENTWOOD ARTS EXCHANGE VIDEO FEST
Saturday, February 7th, 2015 - 1:00 p.m. until all projects have been screened
www.washingtonpost.com/gog/museums/bren…MARYLAND PUBLIC TELEVISION
SEASON 3 - ARTWORKS - POP-UP
Airing Thursday, February 5, 2015 - 8:30 p.m.
Repeats Sundays at 12:30 p.m.
mpt.org/programs/artworks-season3ARTIST'S TALK
Luce Local Artist Series, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Sunday, October 26, 2014, 1:30 p.m.
www.culturaldc.org/events/2014/09/luce-…EMBODYING THE EPHEMERAL
Flashpoint Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Reception: October 17th, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
October 17 - November 15, 2014
www.culturaldc.org/events/2014/09/lesli…OPEN STUDIO
May 10th, 2014
12:00 - 5:00 p.m.AREA 405 and CASA Baltimore
Silent Auction - 'The Art of Caring'
area405.com/soon/2014/4/27/art-of-caringSTREAM
Two-Person Exhibition
with Shelley Warren
Castleton Downtown Gallery
Rutland, Vermont
March 26 - April 26, 2014
Reception: Friday, April 4th
www.castleton.edu/news-media/article/ve…SLIDE TALK
Castleton State College
Department of Fine Arts
Castleton, Vermont
March 25, 2014
