Online Thesis Show
Due to Covid-19 my 2020 MFA Thesis show at California College of the Arts was moved online. So I made this instead. Our full class site lives here https://ccamfa.art/
A Request for Grace (mock up)
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Multichannel audio, wood risers, bench. 5:14.
A Request for Grace is a multichannel audio installation built around the tenuousness of our current world. It combines multiple recordings of “Amazing Grace” spread over a series of speakers that sit on wood risers.
Install mockupPlay left and right audio simultaneously.
Untitled
(Church Light)
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Pigment prints.
The Myth of Apollo
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Single channel video loop, articulated arm mount, dislocated audio. 2:40:20
The Myth of Apollo gathers stationary videos of people watching the 2017 total solar eclipse.
Video Stills
Install
Ascension in Seven Parts
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Five channel video, 9:10
Ascension in Seven Parts recreates “Stairway to Heaven” made up of amature youtube renditions.
Artist Statement: I am an interdisciplinary artist concerned with notions of social entanglement, digital assertion, and transcendence. My work explores how these phenomena are both embedded within, and created by, popular and visual culture, media, and myth.
To this end, I make work incorporating original photography, found images and video, with installation. My practice is equally dedicated to photographic and research based field work, and to sifting through digital archives, and I have a keen sense for pulling at threads in order to recontextualize the implied and implicit meaning of images.
Always foregrounding the human, my work oscillates between shades of beauty, darkness, alienation, and humor to create thoughtful work that teases out larger conversations about how we navigate the world today.
To this end, I make work incorporating original photography, found images and video, with installation. My practice is equally dedicated to photographic and research based field work, and to sifting through digital archives, and I have a keen sense for pulling at threads in order to recontextualize the implied and implicit meaning of images.
Always foregrounding the human, my work oscillates between shades of beauty, darkness, alienation, and humor to create thoughtful work that teases out larger conversations about how we navigate the world today.