2024 - “Grown at Oak Spring, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, VA. 2023 - “Annual Faculty and Staff Exhibition”, The Weight Room, Provo, UT. 2021-22 - “Oddspace(s): A Cooperative Book Project” ——————- Myra Powell Gallery, Ogden, UT. ——————- MCLA Gallery, North Adams, MA. ——————- VPCC Gallery, Hampton, VA. 2021 - “atlas”, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR. 2021 - “Statewide Annual Exhibition: Photo, Video, Craft”, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT. 2021 - “Midwinter at the gates of dawn”, Writ and Vision, Provo, UT. 2021 - “Rouge”, Sears Art Museum, St. George, UT. 2021 - “Great Awakening”, Center Gallery, New York, NY. 2020 - “Incubation Period”, Granary Arts / PARC Collective, UT. 2020 - “Millennial Visions” - Online Exhibition for Utah Visual Arts 2020 - “Radical Hope”, Online Exhibition curated by Madeline Rupard 2020 - “pink sheets”, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR. 2019 - “Playground”, SOIL, Seattle, WA. 2019 - “Last night”, The Magenta Suite, Exeter, NH. 2019 - “Skill Tree”, Honey Ramka, Brooklyn, NY. 2018 - “Trickster”,The Envelope PDX, Portland, OR. 2018 - "LBCC Faculty Show", Cannon Gallery, Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR. 2018 - "Desire Lines", Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, SLC, UT. 2017 - "Sitka Invitational", World Forestry Center, Portland, OR. 2017 - "Sacred Spaces", Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT. 2017 - "Underbelly", Tropical Contemporary, Eugene, OR. 2016 - "Nature Beyond Landscape", Meyer Gallery, Park City, UT. 2016 - "Back to the Garden", Confluence Gallery, Twisp, WA. 2016 - "Geo Necro", ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA. 2014 - “Utah Ties” CUAC, Salt Lake City, UT. Juried by Adam Gildar. 2013 - "Below: UMOCA Artists in Residence", Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT. 2013 - “Origins / Destinations”, Commons Gallery, University of Hawaii, Hilo, HI. 2013 - "Utah Biennial: MONDO UTAH" Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT. 2013 - "35x35" young Utah artists, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT. 2012 - “Manulua Project: A Book Arts Exhibition” Minneapolis Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN. 2011 - 2012 "Global Echo: International Artists in Print" ——————- Williamson Art Gallery, Slatey Rd, Birkenhead, UK ——————- Spectrum Project Space at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia ——————- Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery, Sheffield Hallam University, UK ——————- PR1 Gallery, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK 2011 - "Manulua Book Art Project", Wirral Metropolitan College, Wirral, UK 2010 - "Area 3200", Utah Valley University, Orem, UT. 2009 - "New Work" with Gordon Wilson, Tinman Gallery, Spokane, WA. 2008 - “Hard Nox” Group Exhibition, Whitworth University. 2008 - “Celebrating Women”, Idaho State University. Juried, National. 2007 - “Nox” Group Exhibition, Whitworth University.
Residencies & Fellowships
2024 - Alan Jutzi Fellow, The Huntington, Pasadena, CA 2023 - Perennial Resident, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, VA 2022 - Alumni Resident, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, VA 2020 - Eliza Moore Foundation Fellow, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, VA 2019 - Artist-in-Residence, Soaring Gardens Artist Residency, Laceyville, PA 2016 - 2017 Artist-in-Residence, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR 2013 - 2014 Artist-in-Residence, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT 2013 - Assistant to David Thorpe, Berlin, Germany 2010 - Manulua Bookbinding workshop/collaboration, Leimatu'a, Vava'u, Kingdom of Tonga
Work Experience
University-level teaching experience: Understanding Art, Drawing Fund., Painting Fund., Intro to Adobe CC, 2D Design, Color Theory, Watercolor/Aqueous media, Adv. Drawing, Adv. Painting, Graduate Theory Seminar
2020 - present Department Manager, Department of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT.
2017 - 2020 Part-Time Faculty, Linn-Benton Community College, Albany, OR 2017 - 2020 Member and Co-director, Tropical Contemporary, Eugene, OR 2016 - 2020 Nonprofit board member, Eugene Printmakers, Eugene, OR 2015 - 2020 Graphic Designer / Art Director, PA Distribution, Eugene, OR 2015 - Visiting Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 2013 - 2014 Adjunct Faculty, Studio Arts - Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 2013 - 2014 Teaching Artist, Alianza Academy charter school ( 1st-8th grade ), Salt Lake City, UT 2010 - 2013 Instructor, Intro to Art & Drawing, BYU - Provo, UT and London, UK. 2010 - 2011 Fossil replica sculptor, Fossilogic LLC, Pleasant Grove, UT. 2008 - 2009 Teaching Assistant to Gordon Wilson, Whitworth University, Spokane, WA 2008 - Curatorial Internship, Northwest Museum of Art and Culture, Spokane, WA. 2008 - Loop Press Printing Assistant to Ruben Trejo 2007 - 2008 Whitworth Printmaking Teaching Assistant 2007 - 2008 Whitworth Artists’ Guild Co-chair 2006 - Loop Press Printing Assistant to José Parlá
Curatorial Work / Facilitation
2017 - 2020 - Tropical Contemporary programming jury member & artist liaison 2019 - “Real World”, Tropical Contemporary, Eugene, OR. 2019 - “In War times / In Tiempos De Guerro”, Tropical Contemporary, Eugene, OR. 2019 - “Brush Cow Needle Thread”, Tropical Contemporary, Eugene, OR. 2018 - “Serious Business”, Tropical Contemporary, Eugene, OR. 2018 - “Narrowly Mended” with Tropical Contemporary, Utopian Visions Art Fair, Portland, OR. 2018 - “Spirit World”, MACF (now CFLDSA) Festival, New York, NY. 2018 - “Strange Country”, Tropical Contemporary, Eugene, OR. 2015 - "HORRORSHOW: Fear and the Abject", Gallery Gallery, Provo, UT.
Collections
2023 - Salt Lake County Visual Art Collection. Three photographs. 2023 - Harold B. Lee Library, BYU. One Artist’s Book. 2023 - Oak Spring Garden Foundation Library. One Artist’s Book. 2021 - Oak Spring Garden Foundation Permanent Collection. Two photographs. 2017 - Linn-Benton Community College Permanent Collection. One mezzotint. 2012 - Origin/Destination exchange with the University of Hawaii Manoa 2011 - Global Echo print exchange- One print in the permanent collections of: 2011 - Wirral Metropolitan College, UK 2011 - Liverpool JMU, UK 2011 - Brigham Young University, Utah, USA, 2011 - Sheffield Hallam University, UK 2011 - Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia 2011 - Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan 2011 - Parsons School of Design, the University of New York, USA 2011 - Kwantlen Polytechnic & University, B.C. Canada 2011 - University of Central Lancashire, UK 2010 - Whitworth University Permanent Collection. Fifteen monotypes.
In my work, I interpret both gardens and archives as sites of control, conflict, desire, failure, and accumulated history. Rendering plants through the mediums of painting, drawing, photography, and text, my work emulates the ways humans impose upon the natural world, while imagining how the natural world resists these efforts.
My process often mimics the actions by which we have historically sought to extract pleasure, value, meaning, or information from plants through cultivation and documentation. I make images slowly; the plants are considered through long-exposure photographs, high-resolution site scanning, or via painstaking rendering in paint. This process is also attended with all the violence inherent in the act of capture; when I crush plants beyond recognition with the weight of a scanner or paint them in flat gesso and ink, I am attempting to translate an organism into a document to be filed and reproduced. These living things cannot, however, be truly rendered into two dimensions. They slip from sight and comprehension back into the dark and the soil. They are subject to time, and resistant to any attempts to halt its progress.
Over time, my engagement with the subjects of my work has gradually expanded to include the role observation and memory plays in control and knowledge of the natural world. I find myself increasingly drawn not only to images of plants subjected to the pressures of human desire or attention, but also to depictions captured almost incidentally, in the margins of other documents. Plants now long dead appear in photographs as bystanders caught in the background of family vacations, as witnesses to world events, as victims of the whims of settlers and real estate developers. Their images are used as set-dressing to sell everything from moral principles to political campaigns to bars of soap. These often negligent inclusions of plant life fill the margins of countless texts and the edges of countless photographs. By seeking out these images, and subjectively interpreting them in the medium of oil painting, I am working to further embrace the inherent unknowability and impermanence of living things.
