My work creating, talking about, curating, or facilitating experiences with art is approached with the same values with which I approach life: curiosity, embracing ambiguity and change, weaving disparate stories, and envisioning the possible.
Social, historical, and environmental tensions between culture and nature are the focus of my work. I use Niagara Falls, where I was born and raised and from which five generations of my family lived as settlers, as a framework to explore more universal themes, including desire, power, balance, vision, gender, and place. The first chapter of this exploration was featured at Footnote Project Space, Brooklyn, in 2023. New chapters in this long-term research are in progress. Both can be viewed on the site under Art Works/Recent Work.
Drawing has provided me with continuity of practice during the past decades. Collaboration is central to my practice as a way of expanding and learning with others, including my most recent series of collaborative books, recently exhibited at the Rodman Art Institute of Niagara. These books can be found in Artwork/Collaborations.
Future work will incorporate moving images as I return to my early interests in animation's imaginative power and the medium's temporality, an evocative metaphor for life.