Empathy lures me to the agencies of discarded and consequential materials: debris from the act of making, objects in street gutters, and crumbling drywall in abandoned spaces. I work with a variety of art materials to depict, unpack and understand the agencies of these materials. Simultaneously considering the conceptual, formal and functional potentials of materials inundates me in a process of making that relies upon my collaboration with the will of the material.

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In my studio practice, I consider many facets of material agency. When I use materials to make art I pay attention to potentials. For instance, if an oil pastel slips from my hand, what is the mark that that action allows? How do I respond to that mark? Responding to these moments as potentials rather than as mistakes makes me a collaborator with the material instead of a user of it. I make works about forgotten and discarded materials. I use making to explore how materials continue to affect us as they detach from their intended functions. I try to understand what materials become when detached from their human-centric functions. At times, my works explore environmental implications of material agency. Other times, I seek to depict agencies of degradation and persistence that are tied to these materials.

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I received an MFA from Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois in 2019, completed a year long post baccalaureate residency at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA in 2015 and received a BA from Dickinson College in 2014.

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