I am a multidisciplinary artist exploring the past and present of particular microcosms as entry points into larger human and environmental conditions. My work manifests in a range of media including installation, sculpture, video, photography and participatory projects. Across media, I’m interested in scrutinizing systems of producing knowledge, place, and relationships to land and time.
My process is grounded in place-based research and partnerships with individuals, community groups and institutions outside of traditional art spaces: biologists, historians, neighbors, community radio, environmental justice activists and more. Within these partnerships I work closely with experts and public participants to develop interactive projects, resource materials, and time-based, gallery works. My work has explored specific contexts such as the internal struggle of a 19th c. utopian community to define itself (Maintaining Utopia, 2018), my grandmother’s attempt to understand and articulate family history (Monument to an Origin Story, 2018), land-use conflicts near my hometown (Refuge, 2019), and the industrial past and ecological transformation of a park beside my studio (Tree News, Issue 2, 2022).
I have exhibited at galleries, museums and DIY spaces nationally and internationally, sent vibrations from a giant fungus throughout the atmosphere, and currently publish a newsletter, Tree News, with artist Paper Buck. I received a MFA from Carnegie Mellon University (2019) and am an Assistant Professor of Art at the Pennsylvania State University School of Visual Art.