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I have practiced as a landscape designer for the last 7 years. I have also worked as a blacksmith’s assistant. I am an installation artist. Much of my work deals with topography, the measure of level, and how it is superimposed on the landscape via human built environments. I have exhibited a number of recent topographic works. Recent shows have included earthwork pieces and a series of indoor/outdoor fountain for a show at the Austin Museum of Art and the Dallas Center for Contemporary Art in March. This Spring I led a workshop at San Francisco’s Zeum about aerial photography and topographic maps.
EDUCATION
2002-2005 MFA Design, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
1998 BA, Linguistics, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
1994-1996 Media Arts and Sciences Coursework, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
EXHIBITIONS
2006, October Off-Site. Southern Exposure, San Francisco
2005, April Landminds, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe
2005, April 22 To Watch: New Art in Austin, Dallas Center for Contemporary Art
2005, November Double Vision, Old Jail Arts Center, Albany, TX
2005, November 22 To Watch: New Art in Austin, Galveston Art Center
2005, August 22 To Watch: New Art in Austin, Austin Museum of Art
2005, February Terrestrial Arcs, Plan B Gallery, Austin, TX
2005, April Liminal Walk. Offsite piece at University of Texas at Austin’s East Mall Fountain with supporting on-site materials shown in MFA show entitled Plots and Schemes, at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
2004, November LOUNGE! Arthouse at Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, Texas
2004, August IN::FORMATION, Creative Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
2004, January Land Arts of the American West 2003, Creative Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
2003, December Land Arts of the American West 2003, John Sommers Gallery, the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2003, October Mappings, Colomo, Marfa, TX
PRESS
October 2, 2005 “Eye on Austin Artists”, Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin. Austin American Statesman
August 26, 2005 “22 to Think About”, Rachel Koper. Austin Chronicle
June 2005 Austin Critics Table Nomination, Female Artist of the Year, Austin American Statesman June 2005 Austin Critics Table Nomination, for show “Terrestrial Arcs”, Austin American Statesman
Spring 2005 “Terrestrial Arcs,” by Laura Lindenberger. Artlies
March 2005 “Land Art of the American West,” by Eric Zimmerman. Glasstire
August 27, 2004 “Recommended: In::formation at the Creative Research Lab,” by Jacqueline May. Austin Chronicle
January 23, 2004 “Snow in Austin?” by Julie Moody. Morning Edition on KUT 90.5
January 29, 2004 Austin American Statesman, XLNT “Art Project Will Give you the Chills,” News 8 Austin by News 8 Austin Staff. January 23, 2004
January 23, 2004 “Project Brings Snow to Sunny Austin,” by Jennifer E. Spencer. Daily Texan
GRANTS/AWARDS
2006, October Southern Exposure, San Francicsco sponsored funded my Mission Lake Project.
2004 Summer New Work Grant, University Co-Op Presents the 2005 David Mark Cohen New Works Festival Committee, University of Texas Department of Theater and Dance
2003-2004 Dean’s Associates Fellowship, College of Fine Arts. University of Texas At Austin
2003-2004 Micheal Aubrey Jones Endowed Scholarship in Art, University of Texas At Austin
2003-2004 Departmental Fellowship, Department of Art and Art History
2004-2005 Marian Royal Kazen Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Art, University of Texas At Austin
2005 Grants to fund Liminal Walk at The Univesity of Texas at Austin included University Co-Op Presents the Cohen New Works Festival, the Powell Endowment for Risk-Taking in the School of Architecture, and the College of Fine Arts, through the Marie and Joseph D.Jamail, Sr. Regents Professorship in Fine Arts
2005 Grants to fund Inland Sea at the Austin Museum of Art
Note: Many of my projects have involved my procuring elaborate donations and support from diverse entities such as fountain pump suppliers, glass manufacturers, trucking companies, ice manufacturers and so on. These are not grants or awards per se but have significantly contributed to the funding of my art work.