Thesis Exhibition: March 12 - 15, 2014

Opening Reception: Friday, March 14, 6 - 8:30pm

My creative practice concentrates on evolving the applications of printmaking to create sculptural installations and unique constructions from woodcuts. Rendering the images in woodblocks allows me to repeat forms while shifting details, mimicking the call and response of a poetic refrain. Harnessing the serendipity inherent in the printmaking process and the unique mark-making of wood, I seek to create a pictorial language that transcribes the complexity of visual comprehension into sensuous form.

Vibrant color and textured imagery mimics the din of our visual landscape, the fractional sensation of a narrative just outside of grasp.  Shapes and patterns reappear like an echo sounding the trace of something unearthed. The recognizable forms slip from representation to abstraction, like the mutability of memory, revealing the inevitability of its failure.