BIO:
I investigate landscape, place, environment, and geography, through strata of observation, technology, subjectivity, and my surroundings. I use traditional and digital photographic mediums, GPS, environmental data sets, augmented sampling procedures, clothing design, and classification to investigate our current present state. I received an interdisciplinary M.F.A. from the Maine College of Art, and have been working, living, and observing on Peaks Island three miles off the coast of Portland Maine. Over the last few years I have been an active collaborator with the Geographic Observatory and WEAREX [wax]. The Geographic Observatory uses systems of observation, perception, and exploration to form cross discipline perspectives on relationships between community and the landscape. While WEAREX [wax] is a clothing and design project that focuses on the reconfiguration of clothing and design to affect and inform the way in which we move and inhabit. In addition to these collaborations I have worked with the arts collective Spurse and the art non-profit organization the Creative Material Group [CMG]. I hold an adjunct faculty position at Southern Maine Community College, where students engage with photography in a completely digital environment. In addition to these teachings I have lectured at the Maine Media Workshops, The Maine College of Art, and at Syracuse University’s School of Architecture, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University and the Bakery Photo Collective. At the present I am investigating movement, photography and ones ability to understand place. Further inquire into the basement is underway.
CURRICULUM VITAE:
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EDUCATION
MFA, Photography, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, 2008.
BFA, Photography / Art History, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, 2005.
Associates of Arts, Photography, Rockport College, Rockport, Maine, 2003.
Part Time Student, Auto-Cad Drafting, Central Maine Technical College, Auburn, ME, 2001.
EXHIBITIONS
2011
Engaging Insects, USM Art Gallery, Gorham, Maine.
Gang, Foc’sle Gallery, Province Town, Massachusetts.
Interior Arachnid Territory Tracking Kit, Spurse, Experimental Geography, Foreman Art
Gallery, Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
2010
Interior Arachnid Territory Tracking Kit, Spurse, Experimental Geography, Museum London, London, Ontario, Canada.
Photographing Maine: Ten Years Later, Center For Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine.
We Are X / wearex / Wax, Gorilla Store Front and Tintype Studio, 157 High Street Portland, Maine.
Interior Arachnid Territory Tracking Kit, Spurse, Experimental Geography, The James Gallery,nThe Graduate Center at CUNY, New York, New York.
Patches Within Proximity, The Geographic Observatory, Area Gallery, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine.
Interior Arachnid Territory Tracking Kit, Spurse, Experimental Geography, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine.
2009
Interior Arachnid Territory Tracking Kit, Spurse, Experimental Geography, The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Blue Hammer, Creative Material Group, Tricks of The Eye, RISD, Office of Public Engagement, Center for Integrated Technologies.
Interior Arachnid Territory Tracking Kit, Spurse, Experimental Geography, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minnesota
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Small Works, Darkroom Gallery, Manchester, New Hampshire.
2008
Open, Hatch Gallery, Brunswick, Maine.
ITTY/BITTY Invitational, YES Gallery, Warren Rhode Island.
Wearex Factory, Sacred and Profane, Peaks Island, Maine.
First Traces, Center For Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine.
Runway Earth, Roger Williams Botanical Garden, Providence, Rhode Island.
Species, Gem Gallery, Peaks Island, Maine.
Interior Arachnid Territory Tracking Kit, Spurse, Experimental Geography, Richard E. Peeler Art Center , DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana.
Imprint, GEM Gallery, Peaks Island, Maine.
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine.
Sprout, GEM Gallery, Peaks Island, Maine.
Oil, Three Fish Gallery, Portland, Maine.
Spring Thing II, AS220, Providence, Rhode Island.
Treading Lightly, Waterfall Arts Center, Belfast, Maine.
2007
Fall show, GEM Gallery, Peaks Island, Maine.
Free For All, Space Gallery, Portland, Maine.
Annual End of Year Show, Gem Gallery, Peaks Island, Maine.
2006
Annual Polaroid Show, Space Gallery, Portland, Maine.
Extended Views, Edwards Gallery, Holderness, New Hampshire.
2005
BFA Graduate Exhibition, Art Institute of Boston Main Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
Landscape Within Reason, Marran Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Community, Jamaica Plain Art Market, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
PRC Student Exhibition, Photographic Resources Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
2004
PRC Student Exhibition, Photographic Resources Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
2003
Next Generation, The Center For Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine.
PUBLICATIONS
2009
Beloit Poetry Journal, AJB Publishers.
Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism, Nato Thompson, ICi.
2008
Maine College of Art MFA Catalogue, Moth Press.
2007
Oil, The Geographic Observatory, Cole Caswell.
Detritus Views, The Geographic Observatory, C Caswell / J George.
Detritus Objects, The Geographic Observatory, C Caswell / J George.
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
2009
Syracuse University School of Architecture, Visualization, New York, NY.
2008
Maine College of Art, Mapping, Portland, ME.
2007
Rockport College, Alternative Photographic Processes, Rockport, ME.
AWARDS
2008
Albert K. Murray Fellowship, Albert K. Murray Fine Arts Fund.
2007
Albert K. Murray Fellowship, Albert K. Murray Fine Arts Fund.
2006
Maine College of Art Restricted Scholarship.
2005
Art Institute of Boston Merit Scholarship Award.
Rockport College Portfolio Merit Award.
EMPLOYMENT
Visiting Faculty, University of Maine, Orono, Inter-media Grad Program, The Terrain of Visualization, Spring 2012.
Visiting Faculty, University of Southern Maine, Experiments in Landscape Visualization and Interpretation, 2011.
Adjunct Faculty Member, Southern Maine Community College, Currently Standing As Photographic Program Coordinator, 2008 – Present.
Visiting Artist Workshop, Montclair State University Graduate Program, NJ Transect Workshop, Spurse, The Geographic Observatory, 2010.
Adjunct Faculty Member, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, 2007.