Galleries

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