selected exhibitions
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Bondsville Mill Arboretum
Bondsville Mill Park, located near Downingtown, PA was awarded Arboretum status in the fall of 2024. David Culp and an army of volunteers had turned a dilapidated space around the civil war era textile mill into a meadow, walking paths, and garden clearings. I jumped at the invitation to display some of my sculptures at the park. I loved the idea of them being flanked and backdropped by historic industry while surrounded by the beautiful earth tones of early fall. The intense morning light created some really breathtaking photos.
Instillation View, 2024
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Failing Foward
An instillation of works at the Edgar Heap of Birds Family Gallery, Temple Contemporary, Tyler School of Art & Architecture. This exhibition was my thesis defense for my MFA. Failing Forward: to keep on trying despite making mistakes is a body of work I have been exploring to help express my journey of healing from combat related traumas.
Failing Forward Title, 2024
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Brandywine Cottage Garden Party
In the Spring of 2022, David Culp invited me to be a featured artist during a Garden Party he was hosting at Brandywine Cottage. It was an amazing experience to situate my vessels outside of the Gallery "white box" atmosphere and observe them in conversation with the garden scape.
Instillation View, Resiliency V2.0, Ceramic Stoneware, Wire, 2022
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Carillon Tower Exhibition
This represents one of my first opportunities to co-curate an exhibition. Working with Virginia Scotchie, we created a show of sculptural objects focused on the abstraction of Place. Represented as familia objects, light pulls, rural structures, or stars in the night sky; we aimed to evoke a feeling or memory of place within the viewer.
Instillation View, Wall Bowls, 2006
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Contingent Existence
Held at the McKissick Gallery, Columbia SC. This was my BFA Thesis show at the University of South Carolina. Contingent existence is loosely defined as the existence of something being dependent on the existence of something else. For example, the yang exists because the yin exists. Without one, the other would cease to hold importance or exist.
Instillation View, Series of Vessels, Ceramic Stoneware, 2007