My work is concerned with information distribution and methods of display, especially as employed by museums, libraries, and other institutions of knowledge. Display cases, vitrines, labels, and lighting create a platform for what we understand to be authoritative reality. I work to break down this authority by imitating clinical language and established standards to promote information and stories that are often unheard, overlooked, ignored. At times I intermingle data and persons that may or may not be real, and events and antidotes that are unbelievable or wholly invented with purposefully forgotten pasts. Through playful yet involved architectural installations I hope to challenge dominant historical views, while instilling reactions of curiosity, wonder, and the questioning of traditional narratives. These questions eventually extend beyond the artwork and resurface in the institutions whose display methods are mimicked.

Born in Houston, Texas
Lives and works in Rockaway Beach, New York

EDUCATION

2008 BFA Studio Art, University of Texas at Austin

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES

2013 Upcoming Solo Show, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012 River to River Festival, Artists Respond Performance, Governors Island, NY
2012 Shore Fruit, Rockaway Beach Boardwalk, NY
2012 Guest Room's Second Show, MVSEVM, Cornwallville, NY
2011 LMCC's Art Center: Open Studios, Building 110, Governors Island, NY
2011 Sequence of Waves, St. Cecilia's Convent, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Cityscape, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
2010 Station #4 Park Tours by Connie O'Nassis, Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC, NY
2010 Leftovers, Kill Devil Hill Presents, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Rotating Show, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY
2010 Self-Titled, Practice Space, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Travel Valley: Temporary Travel Agency, Ralph's Italian Ices, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Travel Agent Connie O'Nassis Performances, Travel Valley, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Pierogi a Go-Go, The Boiler, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Monofonus Video Collection #1: INSIDE, Trans-Pecos Festival of Music and Love at El Cosmico, Marfa, TX
2009 Polymict, Okay Mountain, Austin, TX
2009 store, Co-Lab, Austin, TX
2009 This Is The Way We Eat, Creative Research Laboratory, Austin, TX
2008 Collage Party, Flood Gallery, Austin, TX

SELECTED AWARDS

2012 A.I.R. Fellowship Program, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Smack Mellon, Hot Picks Artist, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Swing Space, New York, NY
2008 Oxbow Scholarship, Saugatuck, MI
2008 University of Texas, Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Austin, TX