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Artist Statement

Equal parts archivist and alchemist, I dismantle the mechanical and chemical processes of analog photography.

Freed from practical duties, these technologies are adapted to build apparatuses and devise experiments, creating alternate methods of seeing. A negative of a negative is still a negative, but it gains some texture along the way.

Applied to everyday instance, the radically simple is made visible. Process distills essence. Every time a glass is rested on the tabletop another ring forms.

Fixed as artifacts, these minor occurrences are brought together to form an archive of un-epic histories. Sending 300 watts through a TV previously abandoned to the junkyard, an automaton is born.  If you watch, it will speak to you of its existence. 

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Education

2018   MFA,  Mills College, Oakland, CA 

2015   BA magna cum laude, Photography, California State University Sacramento, Sacramento, CA

Professional Experience

2023 - Present Adjunct Professor, Cosumnes River College, Sacramento, CA (History of Photography)

2022 - Present Instructor, Antelope High School, Antelope, CA (Professional Photography)

2020 - 2023 Curator & Founder, Burb Contemporary, Sacramento, CA 

2019 - 2021 Instructor, Golden West High School, Visalia, CA (Intro to Video, Advanced Film, Advanced Broadcasting)

2017 – 18      Graduate Teaching Assistant, Mills College, Oakland, CA (Darkroom Photography, Contemporary Photo Practice II)

2016 – 18      Digitizer/Gallery Attendant, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA

2015 – 16      Instructor, Mt. Whitney High School, Visalia, CA (Intro to Video, Advanced Film, Intro to Graphic Design)

2014 – 15      Digitization Intern, California State Library, Sacramento, CA

2014               Student Darkroom Technician, California State University Sacramento, Sacramento, CA

Exhibition Record

Solo

2020 The Annex, Burb Contemporary, Sacramento,CA

2019 Plan for the Phantom City, The InsideOut, Sacramento, CA

2018   A Window Into The Tower, Mills College Art Museum (Museum Records and Research), Oakland, CA

Group

2020 This Distant Place So Close, Ghost Art Project, Omaha, NE

2019 Feast Your Eyes, Root Division, San Francisco, CA

2018   Figure 8 (MFA Show), Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA

2018   Project Projection, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA

2017   Fall Open Studios, Mills College, Oakland, CA

2017   Blue/Print, Slide Space 123, Oakland, CA

2016   Fall Open Studios, Mills College, Oakland, CA

2016   Pop the Vote! ,  Art Night SF, San Francisco, CA (collaborative project)

2014   Photography Dept. Senior Show, CSUS Design Gallery, California State University Sacramento, Sacramento, CA