I’m a visual artist focused on installation, sculpture, and drawing. A critical event in my childhood years in Belleville, Illinois imprinted a heightened awareness of the body, architecture, and temporality that informs the core of my practice: A lightning strike to my family’s working-class home left deep scars in the plaster walls that exposed the wood lath ribs. My father’s effort to repair our home demonstrated that labor is an act of love and architecture is an ever-changing, fragile second skin. The body’s senses and spatial orientation are the primary way to understand the world. The arc of my practice concerns the sensing human body in a rapidly changing world. I address these ideas through the symbiotic relationship between the human body and architecture – where both reside as indeterminate and temporal bodies.

My artistic vision has been recognized with grants, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Stone and DeGuire Contemporary Art Award, and the Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Artists Award. My work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO; Oklahoma City Museum of Art, OK; Nunu Fine Art, NY; The Arsenal of Venice, Italy; and Artscape Commons, Toronto, Canada; amongst others. My residencies include Art Omi, MASS MoCA, the MacDowell Colony National Endowment for the Arts residency, and Cité International des Arts residency in Paris. I am an Associate Professor at Kansas City Art Institute with a studio in Kansas City, Kansas.