My work is concerned with bereavement: the tension between public and private grief, social customs and material culture of mourning, and objects as repositories of memory which both retain and transmit meaning. Among the media I work with are human hair, clothing, and found photographs.
After a Fashion is a series of fabric pieces made from clothing worn to funerals. Inspired by a personal experience with a dress I wore to my mother’s funeral and could never bring myself to put on again, I asked family and friends whether they too had clothing too tainted by association to wear. Slowly I began collecting clothes–sometimes decades old–that had languished unworn in the backs of closets, too distressing to wear and too sentimental to just throw away. Handling these testaments of loss is a powerful experience, as every garment comes with a story. Joining them together allows for the creation of a symbolic location in which otherwise private griefs become public and communal.
Education
2003 BA (Religion) Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 (forthcoming) Medium: Black, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, New York
2016 (forthcoming) More Beyond, Brick and Mortar Gallery, Easton, Pennsylvania
2016 Introductions, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2015 Divining Line, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2014 Tenth Annual Small Works Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2014 Small Works Salon Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2014 Engaging Stepfamilies, Continental Shift Seattle, Seattle, Washington
2014 People’s Choice Salon Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Solo Exhibitions
2016 (forthcoming) The Less Said, The Better, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2015 Death in the Living Room, Society for Domestic Museology, New York, New York
2015 Transpositions, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Artist Talks
2015 Society for Domestic Museology, New York, New York
2015 Delve Presents: Art and Death, Morbid Anatomy Museum, Brooklyn, New York
2015 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
