Artist Statement

By means of conversation, collaboration, and community involvement, I hope to engage my audience with a visceral experience that is simultaneously generous and transparent. This experience should cause participants to question their own political, social, and spiritual positions, while allowing them to consume and be served. Participants may find themselves spearing Styrofoam cows out of a river, eating free kosher hot dogs, playing ping-pong, reading, telling jokes, or drinking Kool-aid. These experiences become lodged in lives as objects become embedded with meaning.

Working interdisciplinarily allows me to draw from a wide resource pool for projects. Sculpture, drawing, printmaking, performance, sound, and writing are all employed in the construction of these experiences. Various techniques inform each other and share the aesthetics of collaboration, collage, humor, and plasticity. Often installations include multiple elements from this arsenal, as high and low conflate.

Recently, I have been interested in the tension between sacred and profane, manifestations of extreme faith, snake handling, American Revolutionaries, horror, the portrait, jokes, the ordinary, the frontier, and how all of these things are positioned in relation to redemption.