My recent work reflects on my time, effort and care spent in preparing and maintaining a gallery space, as well as my experiences with caregiving with respect to home and family. The work is an extension of my previous explorations with found objects, building materials, and construction processes. I also use drawing and photography as a means of generating layers of iterative cross-referencing.

My assemblage work examines objects and materials outside the context of their intended usage patterns. My exploration of building materials, such as sheetrock, stucco, and plaster, questions the manner in which we tend to overlook and take for granted structures around us that influence our daily lives. The delineations of space which guide us through our days are largely encountered subconsciously.

Recent installation projects are centered around improvised constructions which include functional objects I’ve made within our gallery practice, and scrap materials leftover from those processes. These materials are presented alongside evidence of my artistic practice, including art objects and the leavings produced by the processes of making them, as well as scraps from home repair projects. The potential utility of these materials is interchangeable between various modes of function, between studio, gallery work, and home life. This overlap reflects an ongoing process of increasing integration between these aspects of my life. The temporary, modular structures I create in the process recall the very act of creating a space to house or contain something. The objects that populate them mimic artifacts and objects of contemplation, making reference to conditioned responses we subconsciously perform when presented with familiar formats of interface with such objects and environments.

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