About
After receiving an MFA in Sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute, I spent decades in California as both an artist and non-profit gallery director, but eventually returned to my Rust Belt roots and relocated to Cleveland. Over the past 10 years this geographic relocation has also radically expanded my approach to artmaking as I took a headlong dive into combining historical research into new and experimental works that mesh photography with sculpture and textiles. Recent projects include “Industry Unraveled”, a photo/textile study of abandoned manufacturing sites throughout the Rust Belt; followed by “Incarceration: Solitary Objects” a photo/textile project that investigated a condemned prison in Ohio.
I received a Joan Mitchell Emerging Artist Award in addition to multiple Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards. My work has been recently presented at Transformer Station, SHED Projects, Ft. Wayne Museum of Art, Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery, the Fuller Craft Museum, Jack Fischer Gallery and the Rust Belt Biennial. I was an artist-in-resident at Yaddo in 2024, at the Wurlitzer Foundation in 2023 and at the Joan Mitchell Center in 2022. I’ve also had residencies at MASSMoCA, the California Academy of Sciences, Santa Fe Art Institute and Djerassi Resident Artists Program.
I live in a historic paper mill village near Cleveland, Ohio.