Printmaking

Contact Information

Fillmore, NY 14735
tel: 585-567-9421
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Artist Statement

I have a perennial interest in the connections between humankind and the natural world. My recent research has been invested in combining imagery of landscape with photographs and drawings of wildlife and a tertiary element of elegant, feminine patterns. The juxtaposition of organic, natural, landscape-derived images to the fine, detailed, textile-reminiscent patterning makes an interesting contrast. This contrast calls to mind a struggle between allowing nature to be itself, undisturbed, and humankind’s desire to move, shape and alter the landscape for a multitude of reasons.

Most recently, my studio practice has been invested in photographing the landscape of Allegany County, New York. This immediate area where I live and work is rich in natural beauty and agricultural resources, but also rural and economically depressed. I strive to speak into and accentuate the richness of abundant wildlife and stunning visual scenery that contradict the economic depression. I translate photographs through digital manipulation and drawing processes to printmaking matrixes, which I then layer with images sourced from antique textile patterns and topographical maps. My work makes a commentary about the mark humans make when they change and alter the landscape, and how cultivation of backyard gardens, housing development, and farm fields can all make an environmental and cultural change. All of this connects to my interests in exploring how landscape and environment affects the human climate.

Education

2005
University of Delaware, Newark, DE
MFA, Printmaking

2003
Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
BFA, 2-D Fine Arts
cum laude

Lectures and Talks

2008
Mount Saint Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, MD

World Washi Summit, Toronto, Ontario

2005
Houghton College, Houghton, NY

Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA

2004
Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA

Professional Experience

2005 – present
Assistant Professor of Art, Houghton College, Houghton, NY

2005 – 2010
Director of Exhibitions, Ortlip Art Gallery, Houghton College, Houghton, NY

2007 – present
Art Department Chair, Houghton College, Houghton, NY

Professional Affiliations

Southern Graphics Council
College Art Association
National Council for Education the Ceramic Arts
The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
Rochester Print Club, Rochester, NY
Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY

Collections

Marie and James Via, Rochester, NY
Shirley Mullen and Paul Mills, Houghton, NY
Houghton College, Houghton, NY
State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
Southern Graphics Council
University of Akron, Akron, OH
Center for Innovations in Print, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Department of Photographs and Prints, Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Columbia College, Chicago, IL
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Philagrafika, Philadelphia, PA

Selected Exhibitions

Solo

2010
Both Sides Now, Creative Arts Center, Wellsville, NY

2009
Tete a Tete, Firehouse Gallery, Genesee Center for the Arts, Rochester, NY

2008
Swallow, Creative Arts Center. Wellsville, NY

Paradigm, Memorial Gallery, Mount Saint Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, MD

2006
Calligraph, Balance Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2005
MFA Exhibition, Old College Museum, Newark, DE

Recent Work, Twin Brook Winery, Gap, PA

Group

2010
Pressed for Time: Contemporary Printmakers, Davison Gallery, Rochester NY

Art Faculty Exhibition, Ortlip Art Gallery, Houghton, NY

Passion for Printmaking, The Fountain Arts Center. Belmont, NY

2009
The Whole Nine Yards, Midwives Collective and Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Monumental Idea in a Miniature Book, Columbia College, Chicago, NY

Korea Book Art Association, Seoul, Korea

Yonsei University, Wonju, Korea

Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan

Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

Adams House Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Art Faculty Exhibition, Ortlip Art Gallery, Houghton NY

Influence, Wyoming County Arts Council, Perry, NY

2008
No Borders, Proof Studio Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

American and Canadian Printmakers, Kozo Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

Art Faculty Exhibition, Ortlip Art Gallery, Houghton, NY

Fair Trade, Birmingham Southern College, Birmingham, AL

2007
Invitation, Ortlip Gallery, Houghton, NY

Plot Influential, Birmingham Southern College, Birmingham, AL

Satan’s Hook, Southern Graphics Conference, Kansas City, MO

2006
Progression II, Ortlip Gallery, Houghton, NY

Progression, Art Studio For Experiments, Philadelphia, PA

2005
Halpert Biennial, Turchin Center for the Arts Gallery, Boone, NC

Art of The State, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
Juror: Kathryn Calley Galitz

Twelve, 11th and Orange Gallery, Wilmington, DE