Pollack Krasner Grant 2010-2011
Newark museum artist in residence 2011
Franklin Furnace Grant 2011-2012
Brodsky Print Fellowship 2012
Fountainhead Residence 2013
My work is a collision of critique, thoughts and conversations regarding pedagogy in relation to current events. I am concerned with social conditioning as it relates to issues of identity, race and class stratification, investigating the psychological impact of misinformation or epistemological fatalism as a public pandemic, for the purpose of dialogue in disrupting normal patterns of thought. The work is immersed and committed to my experience with materials, my relationship to history as a racial hybrid and contemporary visual media portrayal of otherness, confronting cultural bias at its academic front and dismantling whiteness as a fabrication of ideological dominance. …Read More
Education
School of Visual Arts 1992
BFA University of Oklahoma 1993
MFA Rutgers University 1996