Born 1978, Des Moines, Iowa

I received a B.F.A from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003, and an M.F.A. from the University of Chicago in 2006. I am currently teaching in the School of Art, Design, and Architecture at Judson University in Elgin, IL.

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Statement of Intent:
Based on personal observation, this body of work seeks to explore the changing landscape of suburban and exurban America and the forms that inhabit it. By recording the subtle invasion of industry and technology into the existing geography, I want to highlight the coalescence of modern technology with the natural environment, and explore how man-made forms interacts with the landscape and other forms surrounding them. I primarily use drawing to help me communicate these ideas because I believe the manipulation of the material, the immediacy of the mark making, and the fluidity that occurs as I work and rework these idea represent the human thought process. This experience combined with the subject matter become metaphors for the separation, isolation, and emptiness of these forms that mirror the psycho-geography of placelessness that exists in the space between urban and rural in America today.