VANISHING POINTS
Mountains, mining, and Appalachia’s disappearing landscape.
I am an artist inspired by nature and disquieted by environmental distress.
My artistic practice is driven by an unwavering fascination with landscape and its many transformations. I utilize printmaking, photography, painting, drawing, and installation to create reflective images of mundane and extraordinary circumstances. Each of the scenes I portray symbolize a larger narrative of place, often in consideration of history, land, industry, or ecology. My most recent projects depict landscapes marred by resource extraction and its reverberations through the Rust Belt, Central Appalachia, and Rural Alaska. In the past few years, archival research and travel have become integral to my practice. Outside of the studio, I find myself scouring old maps, reading journals, and constantly wandering off the beaten path in search of the overlooked.
COMING SOON…
In August 2024 I was an Artist in Residence at the Wrangell Mountain Center in McCarthy, Alaska - a small mining town in the heart of the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. Over two weeks, I scoured McCarthy and ruins of the nearby Kennecott Copper Corporation, unraveling the areas rich and dramatic history of copper mining. Now I am developing a series of intaglio prints and copper etchings based on my research.
Stay tuned.
