My practice involves finding a second gravity, a new relationship with the invisible forces that govern us. My primary tools are resistance, tension, friction – forces tied to gravity and contact, which help me agitate things into being to provoke sensation, discomfort, and surprise.
I often use casts of ready-mades as a starting point for improvisational constructions of bodily constriction and escape. The materials I’ve chosen are stand-ins for the heft and pliancy of flesh, the ballast of body weight, and the rigidity of the human form. These constructions act as a collection of counterpoints that involve the viewer in their struggle for equilibrium. The things I make want to levitate, to be released. Part of my role is to allow or forbid it.
b.1985, New York City
lives and works in New York City
EDUCATION
2017-2019 MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London
2003-2007 BA Literature, Boston University
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2019 Missed Connections, Skybridge Gallery, The New School, New York
2019 Quivering Horizons, curated by Stewart Hardie, Berwick-Upon-Tweed, UK
2019 The Odd Witness Launch (with Katarina Sylvan), St. Dunstan-in-the-East, London
2019 Tall Tales of the Kitchen Kelpies' Soup, RAW Labs, London
2019 Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London
2019 We can only have fun on certain days, The Warbling Collective, Stour Space, London
2019 so sweet and so cold, Hockney Gallery, London [solo]
2019 Look at the Mess You’ve Made (with Cat Robertson), Hockney Gallery, London
2019 Zoo, Hockney Gallery, London
2018 Sleep and the Unconscious, 7 Wigmore Street, London
2018 Supercult, Hockney Gallery, London
2018 GOP, Courtyard Gallery, London
2018 WIP Show, The Royal College of Art, London
2017 Double Pelican, Dyson Gallery, London
TEACHING AND TALKS
2019 Zabludowicz Collection - Workshop Leader
2018 UCA Farnham - Visiting Lecturer
2018 Hambidge Center - Artist Talk
AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2018 Gilbert Bayes Award for Sculpture
2018 Distinction for Dissertation, TONIC, Royal College of Art
2018 Hambidge Center Creative Fellow
2018 Villiers David Travel Award
2016 Create Residency, led by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
2004-2007 Marion H. West Scholarship
PUBLICATIONS
2019 The Odd Witness (with Katarina Sylvan), Edition of 30
2019 “Knot”, Artandcrap Essay Series
2018 Conversation with Lenka Clayton, The Pluralist, Issue 6
2018 Conversation with Cathy Marston, The Pluralist, Issue 5
2018 Conversation with Olivia Bax, The Pluralist, Issue 4
2018 Conversation with Lavinia Greenlaw, The Pluralist, Issue 3