About

ARTIST'S STATEMENT: I’ve long been captivated by stories of my ancestors—both my early Mormon ancestors and my queer ancestors. My work comes out of an ongoing rummage through what I inherited—everything from histories to belief systems; from body language to memorabilia. What mythologies guide, or haunt, our lives—either knowingly, or unknowingly? I see these ancestral figurines as ghosts who inhabit my world, but ghosts I can pick up and play with.

BIO: My life is devoted to art, music, and teaching. My roots are in Utah (British/German ancestry), I moved to Chicago in 1995 to attend grad school at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and I've lived in NYC since 1999. This website highlights some of my sculptures, installations, photos and video. In addition, I have a life-long drawing and music practice (piano and violin), and I've studied piano improv and composition for several years. I'm currently developing a series of original piano compositions in connection with mixed-media artworks.

Exhibition highlights include A Greater Utah at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA), and Material Issues: Strategies in Twenty-First Century Craft at UMOCA; site-specific installations for Granary Arts (UT) and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (NYC); and Ceramics Now at Jane Hartsook Gallery (NYC), following my fellowship at Greenwich House Pottery. Additional career highlights include a residency at the Museum of Arts & Design (NYC), and an A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship (NYC), that culminated in my first solo exhibition.

I'm as passionate about teaching art as I am about making art, and I've enjoyed working in a great variety of settings over the past 28 years, including at the Chicago Children’s Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, City College, and Parsons. I also have a background in film producing, and worked part-time at Wildlight Productions from 2000-2012—alongside filmmaker Lucy Winer—as Senior Associate Producer on the feature-length documentary Kings Park: Stories from an American Mental Institution.


NOTE: All ceramic sculptures are made from unglazed stoneware clay. Standing figures are between 5-6 inches tall. Please get in touch for more detailed information.