I am a Texas-based artist working primarily between moving images, installation, sculpture, and painting. In my visual essays, I employ a lyrical approach to storytelling, weaving together elements of soil, textures, and movement to resonate with reflective lyricism. In no particular order, I use video to inform ways to disrupt and transform the grid, superimposed with archives, memories, and imaginations of navigating land and its ever-changing weather patterns. I have developed my aesthetic as a backdrop and extension of performances and interviews confronting pervasive systemic racism embedded in society with themes of self-determination, perseverance, and flight.
Using soil, I employ the elements of structure and analogy to house visual and aural narratives with a keen focus on composition and coded symbols. I relate natural phenomena and weather data with systems of oppression and exclusivity. To be displaced and rendered un-geographic is to be in a condition of social death–confederate statues, water pollution, containment in flood-prone areas, redlining, and gentrification are all byproducts of colonial developments of racism pitted against the lives of marginalized communities. Inspired by Christina Sharpe's term "wake work", I envision wake work in my practice by configuring or re-configuring realities that embody both grief and care simultaneously.
My process straddles the line between control and unpredictability, inviting me to journey through layered narratives and speculative realms. I draw heavily from the world of props, set design, and compositing to explore the interplay of transformation, texture, and perception. Analogy and allegory allow me to construct environments that challenge boundaries between the real and imagined. Each artwork serves as a narrative fragment, a part of a larger story that engages with themes of science fiction and speculative realities.
RECENT EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2023
HOST Series The Contemporary Austin, Jones Center \ Solo Exhibition
(RHY)PISTEMOLOGY (OR, TO KNOW THROUGH THE RHYTHM) Ground Floor Theatre, Fusebox Festival \ April 12-13, 2023 \ Austin, TX\ Screening
2022
An Evening with Ariel René Jackson Museum of Modern Art \ May 9, 2022 \ New York, NY \ Screening
Remember This House: A global story \ Artpace \ San Antonio, TX \ Solo Exhibition
Tending Land \ Digital Arts Resource Centre (Formerly SAW Video) \ Ottawa, ON, Canada \ Group Exhibition
A Welcoming Place \ Women & Their Work \ Austin, TX \ Solo Exhibition
2021
A way back home \ IDEA Lab, UT Austin's Black Studies \ Austin, TX \ Solo Exhibition
We are the [Hackers], Baby, [Hackers] are we \ Big Medium \ Austin, TX
Screen House \ Baltimore Museum of Art \ Baltimore, MA
A New Landscape, A Possible Horizon \ Texas Biennial \ Ruby City \ Austin, TX
Reimagining Monuments \ University of South Florida \ Tampa, FL
Descendance \ Jacob Lawrence Gallery \ Seattle, WA\ Solo Exhibition
Doubt & Imagination \ Dallas Contemporary \ Dallas, TX\ Solo Exhibition
2020
Make America What America Must Become \ Contemporary Art Center \ New Orleans, LA
Dear Future... \ University of Northern Colorado \ Greeley, CO
Another Country \ Terrault Gallery \ Baltimore, MD
Carver's Message in Blue \ George Washington Carver Museum \ Austin, TX \ Performance
2019
Video Series curated by Sara O'Keefe \ New Museum \ NY, NY
L O O M S curated by Partial Shade \ Sweet Pass Sculpture Park \ Dallas, TX
In Practice:Other Objects curated by Gee Wesley \ SculptureCenter \ NY, NY
A Recounting:Data, Disinformation & Blackness curated by Elisa Durrette \ Guerrero Gallery \ San Francisco, CA
2018
Cage Match Project VIII:Color Composition (Installation)\ Museum of Human Achievement \ Austin, TX
All I See Is Blue (performance)with Michael J. Love \ CUE Art Foundation \ NY, NY
Original Language curated by Natasha Marie Llorens \ CUE Art Foundation \ NY, NY
Constructing the Break curated by Allison Glenn \ Contemporary Art Center \ New Orleans, LA
Out of Easy Reach curated by Allison Glenn \ Depaul Art Museum \ Chicago, IL
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