Selected Fine Arts Portfolio

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Last Supper

Mixed Media
One-person dinner table, based off the classic Victor mousetrap design

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Soundsystems: 8-Track

Mixed Media
Gear-and-chain system used to play 8 vinyl records simultaneously, creating a cacophony of various record sounds and speeds.

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Zoetrope Projects

Mixed Media
This zoetrope system creates a short-length loop when activated, using a motorized wheel, a flash system, a viewing device and a stereoscopic pair of color slides.

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Carousel Installation

Mixed media
Three-room installation of sculpture, motorized miniatures and video projections metaphoring life cycles.

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Kissing Machine

Mixed media
Viewer-operated device based off of the cartoon-style punching glove, representing a sarcastic conversion of an intimate human reaction into an act even a machine can perform.

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Fine Arts History

Both technology and art are the products of human invention; technology being society's application used towards the solution of problems (ideally), and art being the expression of our individual perspectives on humanity.

Both fields involve similar processes of experiments, failed attempts and discoveries, but in practice they are distinct.

My artwork tends to be interactive or representative of things with inherent motion. I like my work to be engaging and often laden with some sarcasm.

Washington State University

Master of Fine Arts
Pullman, WA

2000

Ohio University

Bachelor of Fine Arts
Athens, OH

1996

Grant for Artist Projects

Artist Trust Program
Seattle, WA

2001