PHOTOGRAPHY

GROUNDSWELL (2016-2020)

4x5 Negatives, Archival Pigment Prints
Handmade Artist Book


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Handmade Artist Book, Drum Bound, 2020

PROJECT STATEMENT

Groundswell is an allegory about the human psyche and ecological and existential uncertainty. Tracing a nearby stretch of the Missouri River during a period of historic flooding, I invite chance encounters and collaboration to envision the desires, fantasies, and fears of ordinary lives at a threshold. The Midwest embodies weather lands—here economies and livelihoods, secure attachments and sustainable futures, wonder and awe, are all intricately tied to land which lives by unpredictable forces of nature and acts of God. It is also the formative landscape of my childhood, and home region to which I returned in an age of mounting anxiety and doubt. Making ambiguous tableaus across this time and space, I use continuity editing to fluidly sequence them into an unreliable narrative flow, while revealing an intimate entanglement of beings. The work raises questions of our place within an increasingly precarious ecosystem, and our faith to attend to it. 

PROJECT PORTFOLIO

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SELECTED DOCUMENTATION

DOCUMENTATION OF SELECT EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

  • PRESS. A write-up of my Groundswell work by Lisa Woodward, co-curator at FAR Center for the Contemporary Arts’ Pictura Gallery. Established in 2008 in Bloomington, Indiana, Pictura Gallery is a non-profit institution that celebrates and brings international photography to the Midwest.

  • INVITED. LENSCRATCH is an online platform dedicated to supporting and celebrating the photographic arts since 2007. In 2022 my project Groundswell was featured in a series of top work discovered at Photo NOLA portfolio reviews. The feature included my written artist statement and 11 images from Groundswell, and an introduction by submissions editor and contributing writer Daniel George.

  • SELECTED. I was accepted into a competitive 3-month studio residency with ISCP in New York based on my work-in-progress on Groundswell. While in residence I installed a studio mock-up of the work for display during a public Open House, which welcomed some 350 guests to resident studios in one day.

  • INVITED. The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, NE hosts a competitive residency for over 50 national and international artists, writers, and composers each year. The center’s gallery hosts approximately six exhibitions per year primarily showcasing original works by Nebraska-based and regional artists. I was invited to launch a first solo show of my project Groundswell which was largely born out of two residencies I was awarded at KHN.

  • JURIED. Eight artists were chosen from a pool of 98 applicants to participate in the Tallgrass Artist Residency in the Kansas Flint Hills, followed by the Tallgrass Artist Exhibition and Symposium. I was juried into the program based on work-in-progress on my project Groundswell. After the residency I contributed two new works to the group exhibition, made during my time in residence in and around Matfield Green, Kansas and the Tallgrass National Prairie Preserve. I also presented my work in a public artist talk and discussion at the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art in Manhattan.

  • INVITED. A limited edition, handmade accordion photobook from One Day Projects featuring the work of 52 artists photographing across the United States on August 21, 2017, the day of the total solar eclipse. I was invited by book co-editor and designer Eliot Dudik to photograph for the collaborative project; my image, “After” is included in the book’s pullout zine.

  • JURIED. Juried by April M. Watson, Curator of Photography, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, for Filter Photo’s annual spring open call for lens-based work. The 2018 exhibition featured 30 artists selected from a pool of nearly 300 submissions. My image “Up” was chosen from my in-progress series Groundswell.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

EXHIBITIONS
2021 Kansas City Flatfile, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
2021 Art in the Park: Homestead Through the Eyes of Artists-in-Residence, Homestead National Historical Park, Beatrice, NE
2020 Midwest Midwinter, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
2019 Beyond the Missouri, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE (Solo)
2019 Studio Land Lyric, The University of Kansas Art & Design Gallery, Lawrence, KS
2018 Tallgrass Artist Residency Group Exhibition, The Bank Art Space, Matfield Green, KS
2018 Arc/D Faculty Show, The University of Kansas Art and Design Gallery, Lawrence, KS
2018 Context 2018, Filter Space, Chicago, IL (Juror: April Watson)
2016 The Camera is a Clock, University of Kansas Art and Design Gallery, Lawrence, KS

RESIDENCIES
2019 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE (May - June)
2018 U.S. National Park Service, Homestead National Monument of America, Beatrice, NE (August)
2018 Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission, Tallgrass Artist Residency, Matfield Green, KS (July)
2016 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE (January - March / May - June)

AWARDS & HONORS
2020 CENTER Review Santa Fe, Selected
2019 University of Kansas, General Research Fund Award
2018 University of Kansas, General Research Fund Award
2017 5th Annual New York Portfolio Review, Selected
2017 University of Kansas, New Faculty General Research Fund Award

PUBLICATIONS
2022 Lenscratch, Photo NOLA: Groundswell
2018 And light followed the flight of sound, Eliot Dudik and Jared Ragland, One Day Projects

COLLECTIONS
2020 U.S. National Park Service, Homestead National Monument of America, Beatrice, NE
2017 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE

PRESENTATIONS
2021 Art Forum Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS, November 3
2018 Tallgrass Artist Residency Symposium, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, KS, October 13