I’m Pro Becky (who found out at her 20-week anatomy scan that the infant she had been so excited to bring into this world had developed without life sustaining organs), 2022

18 x 24” digital print on paper

Included in:
2024, Birthing Anatomies, Heller Gallery, New York NY

I’m Pro Becky (who found out at her 20-week anatomy scan that the infant she had been so excited to bring into this world had developed without life sustaining organs) refers to a Facebook meme in which twelve traumatic pregnancy stories are recounted to combat the anti-abortion narratives. In the US, much of reproductive politics are based on imagined anatomy and fabricated stories. In the case of the I’m Pro Becky meme, people are sharing and distributing traumatic stories to make a case for reproductive rights. The threat to reproductive right in the US has provoked people’s imagination of the worst possible scenarios of pregnancy in order to justify reproductive freedom. This piece reflects on the sharing of trauma as a form of provoked violence and considers the ways in which the imagination of the reproductive process is activated.

Penland Taxonomy, 2022

Digital Print, 24” x 36”

Tumber Notes, 2022

Monoprint, 18” x 24”

Included in:
2022 Michigan Regional Exhibition, Janice Charach Gallery, Detroit MI

Taxonomy of the Studio, 2021

Digital Print, 24” x 36”

Old Venetian Glass, 2013

Digital print, 36” x 48”

Included in:
2020 Venice and American Studio Glass, Muse De Vetro, Venice 2019 Memoria Technica, Heller Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Swing States, Morean Art Center, St. Petersburg, FL
2018 Swing States, Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH
2014 1000 Points of Light, Ken Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL
2014 Supercool Glass, Shelburne Museum of Art, Shelburne,VT

In the permanent collection of the Toledo Museum of Art

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Old Venetian Glass is a book that was published in 1960 that documents 75 pieces of Venetian glass from the collection of Vojtech Lanna, which now reside in the Prague Museum of Industrial Art.  The book consists of 72 photographic plates of glass made in the 16th, 17th, and 18th century.  I have reproduced each plate in the book by a taking slow exposure photograph of me "performing" the silhouette of each piece.  

Visceral Topographies

Mono-prints of scars on paper, framed

Included in:

2016 Paracosm, Norte Maar, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Visceral Topographies, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2014 New Work, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, IL‍ ‍

“Visceral Topographies” looks at the topography of the body as a landscape of memories.  Geographic locations are layered onto bodily locations in the form of scars that show the shape and form of the body’s personal history.