Update!

Hello again!

I just wanted to post a few upcoming shows/events that I am going to be a part of and to share some updated images of revisited work and works in progress.  

I am going to be part of a show at Lillstreet art Center called Let there Be Light.  I'm very excited to be a part of this show that is including many other talented artists.  Check out my new pots when the show opens on November 22nd!  

As always I have work at Crimson Laurel Gallery.  Check out their gallery for shows going on and the other artists they represent!  

I am also going to be part of an event at Sapor Restaurant in Minneapolis along side Nick Moen, David Swenson, and Victoria Dawes that focuses on pairing our ceramic work with the dishes that the chef creates.  It will be a one night event in December, focused on the experience of eating off of our handmade wares and the use of our functional ceramics with the artful experience of food.  I'm excited to see how this event unfolds!  More info to come!  

The University of Minnesota's Art Department had their 10th anniversary last Friday.  The Faculty and some Alumni had shows up in the Nash Gallery and Quarter Gallery.  Some grads were also asked to show their work for the event and I was able to revisit my piece Let's start here and then go way up over there.  I was excited for the chance to work through some ideas I had after my installation in October.  Here's a view of the installation in the 10th Anniversary Show.

Let's start here and then go way up over there

This semester I am in an Advanced Drawing class and I have been working on quicker, more intuitive studies.  I've been investigating the arch as a shape and its particular meaning in history and in my own personal history.  It's been an interesting process having this quicker way of working in collaboration with my slower process of building the abstract ceramic forms.  There is an interesting tension that happens in my studio and in my installations with these two components in relation to each other.  It speaks to past memories and the recollection of that memory and where the two meet up in my studio.  Here are a few

images of works/ideas in progress.

Sketch:  Bailey and Amelia Dance

Arch Study

Well hello November

Mid terms have come and gone and new work has been made!   It's been a very productive semester so far and a lot of progress has been made with my installation work.  I have been honing in on my content and working on how my intuitive way of piecing together my installations work with the ideas and questions I'm concerned with in my work.


Memory and how it is pieced together after many days, weeks, or years and all of the factors that go into the remembering is an interesting notion.  As I make my ceramic objects and am collecting the parts and pieces that eventually will become my installations, there is a slowness and consideration that goes along with this part of my process.  This slowness is then in contrast to the faster pace of assembling these objects together based on my own intuitive considerations.  I am interested in the tension that happens with this time component, as well as the various formal aspects of placement and the relationship these situations have to the space.  The ambiguity of my objects placed in context with the found objects that have a somewhat recognizable reference creates a feeling of familiarity.  Yet there are open-ended questions that is left in the space.  Just as my memory is constantly being shifted and changed due to my emotions and experiences I am collecting, my pieces are left a little unanswered and continue to form inquiries and questions.

Wall Study 1

Wall Study 2

Wall Study 3

Let's start here and then go way up over there

Let's start here and then go way up over there

Can we just get through this? 

Can we just get through this?

You think that this is comfortable over here?  

Just, just place it riiiiiiight there

This really is an invitation