Recent Works

I spent a lot of time putting together two shows during my final semester of undergrad, as well as frantically applying to graduate school. Everything turned out better than I initially anticipated, and I was accepted into my first choice graduate school, Kendall College in Grand Rapids. My senior show encompassed the work I used to apply for graduate school, and the basis of my current artist statement. This work is featured in previous blogs, along with these two additional pieces.

Reclaim I. oil. 2010Reclaim II. oil. 2010

These two pieces are more a commentary about the innate ability of humans to be reclaimed by their natural compulsions. I had been spending a lot of time contemplating exactly why certain traits are so carved into some individuals and not others. Mostly focusing on why certain actions, or traits are so impossible for different individuals to be capable of over coming, or erasing from their general demeanor. The basis of these two pieces was to start formulation a way to show a interpretation of this process. I do not feel these pieces were entirely to successful conceptually, as I need to evolve this thought process further and create a more elaborate composition. I was satisfied with my rendering of the skin in both pieces, the second one especially.