Biography and CV
Fungi, maps, and political events permeate most of my work. I find them to be bizarre and otherworldly. This being said I cannot understand enough about them. I wonder how they can be combined, what can be learned from them? Are there ways to bring out those things that intrigue me? I examine world events and try to dissect them into understandable pieces. I try to play the scientist. The small and common button mushroom, available at every super-market, becomes the map for a nebula only seen through the eye of the Hubble Space telescope. I use maps to help me interpret political fragments into the cross-stitches that I can carry with me. Adding little indications of this research to make roads and public buildings. Cordyceps spring up in new varieties that choose kitsch statuettes as their hosts.
Education
2013-2016 Weber State University, Ogden, UT Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, Drawing and Painting
2009-2013 Utah State University, Logan, UT Associates of Applied Science degree
2008-2009 Salt Lake Community College Concurrent Enrollment, Grantsville High
Exhibitions
2015
OMOCA Inaugural Show, Ogden, UT
BFA Seminar show, Weber State University, Ogden, UT
2016
Annual Juried Student Show, Weber State University, Ogden, UT
FRACTION, Nurture the Creative Mind, Ogden, UT
Advanced Doodles, OMOCA and Nurture the Creative Mind, Ogden, UT
BFA Thesis Show, Weber State University, Ogden, UT
BDAC Annual Statewide Juried Show, Bountiful, UT
I Chose to do Something else, Project Gallery at WSU, Ogden, UT
2017
Seeds and Circumstances, OMOCA and Thyme and Place, Salt Lake City, UT
Altered: Artists Advocating for Survivors of Domestic Violence, Ogden, UT
Nasty Women Utah, God Hates Robots, Salt Lake City, UT
O1PANES, city funded art installation in unused window fronts on or near historic 25th street, Ogden, UT
ASSEMBLAGE, group show curated by Chauncey Secrest, August 5th to September 22nd, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT
Activities
2015
Participation in the founding of the Ogden Museum of Contemporary Art (OMOCA)
Study-Abroad: Art in Italy and Venice, the City as Studio May 11th to June 3rd, Venice, Italy
2016
Shaw Gallery Assistant at WSU, January to June, Ogden, UT
Ayatana Artist Residency focus in Biophilia, September 19th to 26th in Chelsea, Quebec, Canada
BDAC Museum/Curator internship November to May
The Bob Ross Society, Host of a monthly contemporary open critique group, June 2016-Present, Bountiful, UT
Fungi Fancy, self-published adult coloring book, November 12th, 2016
2017
Nasty Women Utah, Organizer of an all female pop up show benefiting PPUA May 13th, God Hates Robots, Salt Lake city, UT
Utah Museum of Contemporary art Artist in residence, a year long studio residency culminating in a solo show, July to present, Salt Lake City, UT