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exhibitions
words are hard
reception: 5pm-9pm on 03/30/15
location: Gallery 108 in the Trahern Building of Austin Peay State University
"Words Are Hard" is a series of 100 greeting cards that each has an intricate drawing dealing with failed romance, nonsense, and messy declarations. The exhibition served as my senior thesis show at Austin Peay State University. With the show space open in the center and the work presented in a way that forced contact with the viewers, the opening reception housed a few hundred people talking, touching, and communicating. This was really important to the success of the work, because I wanted to challenge the typical quiet, "important" gallery setting.
Many of the contents of the greeting cards were real experiences and conversations I had and some of which were a little embarrassing. Opening up in this way was really freeing as an artist and it allowed me to not take myself too seriously. I hoped to present work that made the viewers remember a tough or embarrassing time they experienced, whether romantic or otherwise.
ALL IN:
Student and faculty selections from APSU
reception: 6pm-9pm on 02/07/15
location: The L Gallery in the Arcade,
an art district in the heart of Nashville
This exhibition was a student-teacher pairing show that housed works from many talented faculty and students. Kell Black, a professor of Drawing and Illustration asked me to show my work along side his in the show. Kell has developed a reputation for his insanely intricate charcoal drawings of fish skeltons on a large scale.
The show itself was in the heart of Nashville in the ever-growing Art District in the Arcade. Over 500 people came by and spent time with the work. On the left is part of one of the 3 works displayed and the drawing is of Jazelle, a four-eyed stressed out woman on her first day of an internship making an embarrassing first impression on her colleages.
Failed Pilots
opening: 5pm-9pm on 11/06/14
location: Marion Street Apartment Studios
Suite 8
Television, though shamefully assigned as low brow entertainment when compared to books or even film, can contain some of the most gripping writing, acting, and stories. With a show, you have time to introduce characters, make viewers invest and care about them, go in a horrible direction that maddens households everywhere-causing them to wonder why they started watching in the first place-then come back with a final season or two that somehow makes all forgiven. People will still just keep on watching! But why? Because you first cared about these people and then you made the audience care.
Failed Pilots is a work in progress exhibition that houses people I have been infatuated with since their conception about a year ago. The concept is meant to be an eventual television show, though their appearance might make such a series difficult to get picked up. The story is going really well. Unfortunately, I don’t have a single word written or typed. I’d much rather just draw them and think up story lines, relationships, and twists as I go. What you are viewing is a look into relationships and human emotions. Oh yeah, and they live in a world where men have three eyes, and women have either one or four. Each illustration is done with a mechanical pencil and a little love.
As an artist and a human being, some things are really hard for me to say. This story-this world is a way for me to address the quirkiness of life and what it means to
be human.
