Relationship status

married

College / University

Claremont Graduate University

Program

MFA painting and drawing

Graduation

18 May 2005

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Installation

I am...

a site-responsive installation artist who lives in Providence, RI with my husband and 6 year old son.

About my artwork

My installations develop a parasitic relationship with the host space. They quietly invade the environment, altering it in significant yet subtle ways, without dominating the space. The work hangs back in a way that is passive aggressive- it appears to be agreeable, pale. retiring, and yet is entrenched in its environment, with deeper roots than are initially suspected. The longer one spends with the work, the more one is able to parse it from its surroundings. I engage the underlying elements that make up works of art – not just the image on the picture plane, but the edges of that picture plane, the wall behind the work, the light that shines on it, etc.
I explore the spatial qualities of a line, drawing it out into space to engage with the environment. The compositions are built piece by piece out of assembled fragments, but the fluid wholeness of each composition coheres the incremental construction.

Artists I like

Kristina Braein, Richard Tuttle, Luc Tuymans, Frances Stark, Fred Sandback, Eva Hesse, Helio Oiticica, Robert Irwin, Sarah Sze, Sergej Jensen, Katerina Grosse

Interests

reading, looking at art, sewing, french films, beer, travel

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

Luc Tuymans at David Zwirner, Wack! at p.s.1, Karen Kilimnick at 303 gallery, Isabella Stewart Gardner museum (all the time)

The centre of the artworld is

nowhere and everywhere