The Veil is now on view in Body Talk at the Target Gallery at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, VA. The exhibition, juried by Matt Storm, explores themes of identity, culture, gender, and mental health through the expression of the physical form. Click here for more information.
Honored to be included in this year’s Will’s Creek National Exhibition: Metamorphosis, held by the Allegany Arts Council in Cumberland, MD from September 3 – 24. The exhibition was juried by Ian Alden Russell, Curator, Educator & Artistic Director at the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA.
On view September 1-17, AXIS MUNDI, a two-person show with Sarah West at Groundfloor Contemporary Gallery in Birmingham, AL. Opening Reception September 1, 5-7 pm. Artist talk, Saturday, September 17 at 2 pm.Installation of Offering (the Prince) at Ground Floor Contemporary
Currently, I have two works on view in Wax & Wane at Stay Home Gallery, in Paris, TN. Curated by Anna McKeown, a Nashville-based artist and curator. Click above to see images from the show installation.
My painting Offering was selected to be a part of the Wiregrass Biennial at the Wiregrass Museum of Art in Dothan, AL. Click image for a link to more information about the exhibition.
I have some works included in Neighbor Nature, a small group show with Wendy DesChene, Lauren Howard, and Chuck Hemard, currently on view at University of Montevallo Poole Gallery until August 24, 2022.
I am honored to be the 2022 recipient of the McClure-Scanlin Visual Artist Residency Award at the Lillian E. Smith Center of Piedmont University. I will be there this summer to attend an artist’s residency.
My video Circle Dances will be a part ofFUTURETRO: 18th Athens Digital Arts Festival from May 25-29, 2022. The Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF) is an annual international festival dedicated to exploring the relationship between art, science, and technology. Showcasing contemporary digital art forms from a diverse global community of artists and scientists, ADAF has been representing Greece internationally in digital arts since 2005 and is the first institution of its kind to be established in the region.
Body Tides, a collaborative dance film with Sheep Meadow Dance Theatre will be screened during ESTIA Day Fest, held at Salvatore LaRussa Dance Theatre in Queens, NY. ESTIA Day Fest is a multidisciplinary curated event bringing together artists of different mediums to explore notions of home, community, and collective experiences. Click image for more information.
The NYAA Alumni Association has begun a database of graduates from the MFA program at the New York Academy of Art. Click image to see my profile and search for other graduates from various years.
I will have two paintings on view in Focus on Figures 2022, a national juried exhibition of figurative art at North River Arts Society in Marshfield Hills, Massachusetts. The juror, Dan Thompson, an internationally known figurative artist and educator, is currently the Dean of Fine Arts at Studio Incamminati School for Contemporary Realist Art in Philadelphia, PA.
In conjunction with my exhibition Natural Rites at Doane University’s Rall Gallery, I was invited to teach a figure drawing workshop to art students focusing on gesture and proportion on February 10, 2022. Thanks to all the students that participated!
EXHIBITION DATES: January 28 – July 31, 2022 Bill L. Harbert Gallery and Gallery C Opening Night Event for Jan. 27 postponed; New date and time to be announced
Central to the “Auburn Experience,” faculty members contribute some of the most provocative work and compelling visual arts research within the southeast. Faculty Exhibition Seven features more than 20 remarkable and noteworthy artists, makers and thinkers in textiles, furniture design, film making, painting, sculpture, public art, collaborative processes and installation-based media.
With strong representation from studio artists in the Department of Art and Art History, this dynamic group exhibition includes faculty from the College of Architecture, Design and Construction, the College of Human Sciences and the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.
Faculty Artists Taneshia West Albert and Alaundra Shealey Noah Breuer Annie Campbell Lijun Chao and Andy Holliday Christian Dagg Wendy DesChene Anna Ruth Gatlin Sara Gevurtz Milliam Giang Pham Lauren Howard Zach Koch Zdenko Krtic Young A. Lee Corky Nell Sarah Odens Lindsay Tan and Taneshia West Albert Kristen Tordella-Williams Courtney Windham Jerrod Windham Lauren Woods Michael Zabala
On December 4, 2021, Body Tides will be shown in Six Degrees of Separation: A Retrospective Film Festival that features dance films from past contributors to their annual live showcase. In its eighth year, the festival will feature the work of Sheep Meadow Dance Theatre, Angie Conte, Julie Carter, Inclined Dance Project, One Day Dance, and Six Degrees Dance. The festival will take place at 265 West 37th Street, New York, NY 10018. Click image for more information.
A recording of the artist talk for Hierophanic Territories at Ground Floor Contemporary, along with artists Liza Butts and Tracie Noles-Ross, is now available to watch on Youtube. Click image for a link to the video.
Dream Stateis this month’s solo feature on the In Art Gallery’s website. The In Art Gallery is an online gallery and resource for artists to have a platform for exhibiting artwork and reaching a global audience by providing opportunities for artists to submit work in various mediums in an international juried competition.
I will be a part of a three-person exhibition at Ground Floor Contemporary during the month of October titled Hierophanic Territories along with artists Liza Butts and Tracie Noles-Ross. I will be showing work created during my time spent at Athena Standards Residency during July 2021.
Body Tides is on view in Circle, an international group exhibition at CICA Museum in South Korea from September 1-19. Click image for more information.
Dream State, a solo exhibition of my figurative paintings is on view from August 16-December 10, 2021 at the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts at Pensacola State College. Click image for more information.
This July, I spent a month working in Athens, Greece at Athena Standards Residency along with artist Erin Cross. This residency was funded through a New Faculty Summer Research Grant at Auburn University. I worked on two separate projects, one new body of paintings for an upcoming show at Ground Floor Contemporary, and the other, a beginning to a new video/performance concept titled Resuscutation of Psyche.
Congratulations to SMDT Dancer Sabrina Pretto for being featured inDance Magazine for your first performance in Sleeping Beauty. It was wonderful working with you and all the other dancers.
Three of my videos were included in Our DNA, a juried exhibition at Kehler Liddell Gallery in New Haven, CT. The show will be up from June 24-July 25. Click image for more information about the show.
I am collaborating again with Sheep Meadow Dance Theatre to produce artwork for Season III: Sleeping Beauty. For more information about the livestream, which will take place on June 22 at 7:30pm EST and to purchase tickets click here.