I make paintings and installations that explore landscape as a metaphor for consciousness. Out West cargo trains on the horizon remind me how thoughts and feelings are always coming and going while the mind remains spacious...In Idaho I toured abandoned mines--caved in, blown shut, re-vegetated. I learned about sites all over the country where the earth and water supply have been contaminated by mining practices. I thought about the buried parts of our histories, how they seep out into the present...In Maine as I sifted through discarded clothes, broken appliances and bits of metal and wood, images of recent earthquakes and floods came to mind, how we dig and rebuild from the wreckage of our pasts...Recently while in residence at the Headlands--a former missile site now owned by the National Park Service--I thought about time as a spiral. So that, the past, present and future are happening together now. Like matter, there is no beginning, no end, but a constant shifting of energy into new forms.

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I graduated with an MFA (2007) from Bard College in Upstate New York and with a BFA (2002) from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. I have been a resident at the UCROSS Foundation in Wyoming and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Nebraska. As a visiting artist at universities in Nevada and Maine, I worked closely with students to create installations from materials found around their campuses. In 2009 I was a visiting artist at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts in Idaho and included in the show ‘Prospects: An Exploration of Mining.’ In 2010 I was awarded a Project Space residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts and was also in residence at Djerassi, both in Northern California. In 2011, there will be a solo exhibition of my work at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts.

I grew up on a farm in Maryland and currently live in Brooklyn.