ART

I am generally attracted to the raw and the unrefined. My most significant pottery influences have always been the folk traditions of China, Japan and Persia. In my work I attempt to combine the archetypal motifs of these traditions with more contemporary imagery inspired by advertising logos, graphic novels, and urban street art. By shuffling and recombining these proven formula, it is my hope that the muse of familiarity appears cross-dressed as innovation.


EDUCATION
2007
MFA, Louisiana State University
1999-2000
Special Student, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
1997-1999
Special Student, State University of New York at New Paltz
1994
BA, Education, University of Wyoming

RELATED EMPLOYMENT
2001-2004
Studio Technician, Hunter College, New York City
1997-1999
Studio Assistant to Jeff Shapiro, Accord, New York

RESIDENCIES & ASSISTANSHIPS
2002
Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Edgecomb, Maine
2000
Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, Montana
1996-1997
Artist in Residence, School of Design and Crafts, Gothenberg University, Gothenberg, Sweden

EXHIBITIONS
2006
Cup, the Intimate Object V, Charley Cummings Clay Studio and Gallery, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Ohr Rising, Ohr/O’keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, Mississippi
Marge Brown Kalodner Graduate Student Exhibition, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Forms and Shapes, The Useful Teapot, Akar Design, Iowa City, Iowa
Kent State University 6th Annual Cup Show, Kent, Ohio