The stuffed windows series began during the early pandemic as photographic images captured in transitory rural places, such as the windows of shuttered buildings along Highway 30 in Nebraska. In these photographs, which also became paintings, sculpture and installation, I contemplate the materiality of memory, stuffed against the transparency of a window pane of an office or station, blocking while emphasizing the passage of light. This ongoing series, including photography, painting, installation and street art, exemplifies composition and color through a painterly approach with material, bringing into focus these quiet spaces in the din and drawing out metaphor. 

Included are selections from my solo show at Burris Hall, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM, 9/25-10/25. The show offers a view of rural New Mexico that subverts traditional notions of landscape, instead offering meditations on ruin and neglect. Many of the elements in this exhibit comprised a storefront installation at Vladem Contemporary, New Mexico Museum of Art, exhibited 10/24-3/25.

Adjacent to this series is the LIBRARYMUSEUM project (photocopy reconstructions in glass cases) which conceptually reconsidered the interior of a formerly public-serving building fallen into disuse that used to be a library, theatre, and community space in Saint Paul, MN. This work was positioned along an affected route in the extended aftermath of property destruction during the George Floyd uprisings, with canvas panels adhered to Deco-era window bumpouts over 3 iterations and 2 winters.

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