Through sculpture I examine the intangible, unstable and fleeting perceptual qualities of landscape, both as subject and form. My aim is to provide the viewer with a kinesthetic response to my work – an experience felt through the body as well as seen through the eyes. I choose to work with forms that appear to defy gravity and that use space in such a way that the viewer is compelled to use their body as they would in the larger landscape.

I received my M.F.A. from the Claremont Graduate University and my undergraduate degree at Linfield College. I am represented by the Rosamund Felsen Gallery, and have shown at galleries throughout the U.S. and abroad. In 2012, I was awarded a John F. Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.

I teach Contemporary Studio and Creative Action in the Foundation Studio program and I am the Program Director of the Sculpture/New Genres area of the Fine Arts Department where I teach Sculpture/New Genres classes

I am an interdisciplinary, research-based artist whose work focuses on issues of social inequity. I appropriate and reconfigure historical images, often of colonialsm and conquest, fabricating alternative iterations that become photographs, drawings, paintings, sculptures, collages, video and installations. However, all of my projects begin with drawing. It is the foundation of my practice. In my classes, we will investigate composition and visual representation together. I encourage my classes to be active collaborations in which we are all in conversation, experimenting and learning from each other.

My works on unprimed canvas are located somewhere between drawing and painting in terms of process. I render shapes of light and shadow on a canvas that functions as an object in addition to the traditional “window” of the picture plane. This object is a place for something to happen, like Rauschenberg’s white paintings or the cave of Plato’s allegory.

In my classes, I teach drawing as a common denominator among all forms of visual culture. Whether design, architecture, painting or sculpture, for example, drawing is the most immediate way to visualize your ideas. I also focus on perception as the basis of the drawing process, since learning to draw requires learning to see in a new way. At any level, drawing can be a profound experience that confirms our humanity, expresses the subjective nature of existence, and changes the way we see the world.