ARTWork

Inspired by wanderlust, language, and the seduction of movement in any medium, I create multidisciplinary projects using a wide range of artistic methods, materials and technologies in inventive, experimental ways. My impulse to create is at once deeply inspired by wild imagination and motivated by intellectual curiosities. The nature of language, memory, space and place are the recurring concepts that I research and investigate through my creative projects. Ultimately the foundation of my artistic practice is an investment in new genres, cross-disciplinary inquiry, and forging new methods of creative research as a way to generate visceral experiences.

video, installation, sculpture, performance, writing, dance, printmaking, photography, Fiber, Drawing, Painting

Prioritizing experimentation over tradition, I always seek new ways to transform materials, alter traditional craft techniques, and create hybridity by mixing fine art mediums, analog, and new media technologies. Materiality is central to my expression of concept; I often use found materials (recycled objects and found images), considering their cultural and historical and cultural value, textures, and ability to translate ideas through aesthetic metaphors.

F I L M

Working in new genres of cinema and versed in traditional filmmaking techniques, my films draw from the aesthetics and storytelling structures of narrative, documentary, music video, screen dance, and the avant-garde. I primarily write & create Experimental Narrative shorts that combine non-fiction and fiction elements with experimental cinematography, sound design and editing.

NOMADIC MYTHOLOGIES

2024

“we are the dream the city is having about itself“ ~ “the city is the dream we are having of where we belong” this screendance film is a genre bending tale of a woman and the imagination of the city. As she maps each site with her body, the city is transformed from the foreign into the familiar, ultimately revealing what belonging somewhere truly means.

NOSTALGIA FOR PLACES I’VE NEVER BEEN

[work in progress]

Nostalgia For Places I’ve Never Been is an avant-garde mixed media animation about the concept of home. Imagery from a wide range of sources (video, found footage, handmade images, digital illustrations) coalesce, taking the viewer through an uncanny travelogue of memory and fantasy.

PHOSPHORESCENCE

2022

[with String Orchestra of New York City]

Experimental Film to accompany premiere of new composition Phosphorescence by Matt Van Brink, performed as live score by the String Orchestra of New York City.

YOU SOHULD BE HERE

2020

Music video for the Bay Area [California] synth-pop, shoegaze indie band, BILLIE GALE.

From their album IMPRINT

Made in collaboration with singer, songwriter, front-runner, Beth Garber.

READING A WAVE

2017

Inspired by Italo Calvino's novella Mr. Palomar, this 3 channel video installation is about the impossibility of isolation: of a wave, of a moment, of oneself from the external world. It is reflective and investigative of the spaces between labor and meditation, divergence and convergence, the physical and the perceived.

AN UNQUIET MIND

2011

An Unquiet Mind: The Untold Story of Isabelle Cadieux is a fictional documentary film, part of a larger body of work comprising the artworks and artifacts of unknown French Outsider Artist Isabelle Cadieux  (b. 1966 – d. 1997, France) An intimate portrait of the artist, this experimental narrative prompts the audience to contemplate their own conceptions of history.

MEMORY MACHINE

2009

Memory Machine is is a mixed media experimental narrative film and and 3 channel video. We are a species that spends its lifetime documenting our individual existence. This need for external proof of our selves and our stories is reflected in our photographs, home movies, possessions (objects), achievements, our children. If we are to have lived, it is because we have a story.

ASSASSINATION JOURNAL

2008

Documentary Film following Radical Historian, George Michael Evica, founder of the first grassroots radio show on the east coast, Assassination Journal. As his obsession with the JFK assassination expands with the events of 9-11, this devoted scholar and patriot finds the answers to these unsolved mysteries when faced with his own mortality.

AUGUSTSTRAßE 18

2006

Mitte, Berlin

The act of looking is both instinctive and violent, it is exploitation as it is empathy. Looking affirms our common humanness, our struggles in the silence, our innocence in isolation.

WrITING

My writing practice is versatile and I’ve published scholarly work and critical texts in the discipline of art, creativity, pedagogy, and contemporary philosophy. Additionally I create and publish artist books, including parafiction, monographs, poetry, and photography, most often in unique hybrid forms that defy genre.

Grey Area Aesthetics: Interstitial Space as the Contemporary Center

This first chapter of the critical art theory / philosophy book, Postrational Visuality (Noxious Sector Press), explores the nature of knowledge creation and potentialities of artwork in our present contemporary climate and the era ahead. A look back to look forward to find wonder anew. the form echoes the content in this innovative work of parafition – inviting the reader to wonder about……… seeks to rejuvenate ideas of suspended disbelief in a contemporary climate marked by suspicions of proof and too-frequent disregard of alternative worlds and worldviews. This is "post-truth" as a return to aesthetics as a strategy for sharing unrealized social and philosophical visions.

Corresponding Daydreams

A Shuffle Story created from the poetry and mixed media illustrations in the artwork series of the same name. This genre-bending book is also a game: create your own narrative with 20 story cards that can be read in any order.

An Unquiet Mind: The Untold Story of Isabelle Cadieux

Both an art catalogue and artist book, the parafictional artist is considered by critics and art historians from London, New York and Chicago.