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Recent Work
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- Compressed Reflections (installation shot) Compressed Reflections: solo show of textile works at Sediment Gallery, Richmond, VA.
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- Deep-Sea Oil Prospects, Northern Gulf of Mexico #5 (Salt Pillow) Year: 2016 Materials: Amoco-donated polyolefin, cotton, synthetic dye, steel Size: 22′ x 10′
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- Diamond-Square_Algorithm: Four Extrapolations Year: 2016 Materials: cotton, Lexan Size: variable – 28″ x 28″ (smallest panel) to 102″ x 108″ (largest panel)
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- Recursion Year: 2016 Materials: cotton, silk, Lexan Size: 16″ x 11″
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- Quadratics #1, #2, & #3 Year: 2016 Materials: cotton, rayon, Lexan Size: 9″ x 11″ (each)
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- Unit “Feu” Year: 2015 Medium: Wool, polyester, cotton, and reprinted books Size: Variable, installation This work was produced through a Fulbright Scholarship in France, and this is documentation of its installation at Galerie PointDom in Toulouse, France
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- Unit “Feu” (installation detail) Year: 2015 Medium: Wool, polyester, paper Size: 2.4m x 10m (bolt of cloth), 40cm x 1m (book) Hanging in the foreground is a textile whose woven structures transcoded a portion of Emilie du Chatelet’s manuscript “A Dissertation on Fire”. On the wall behind is the dissected manuscript of Voltaire on the same topic.
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- Unit “Feu” (installation detail) Year: 2015 Medium: Paper, cotton, polyester Size: 15cm x 18cm (book); 1m x 1m (tape measure) Here again is Emilie du Chatelet’s text “Dissertation on Fire”, with pairs of pages woven together in a simple twill.
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- Geometries of the Loom Year: 2015 Medium: Cotton, mohair, polyester Size: 34″ x 34″ Made by weaving 4 layers of fabric simultaneously on a dobby loom
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- Geometries of the Loom Year: 2014 Medium: Silk Size: 18″ x 20″ Made by weaving 12 layers of fabric simultaneously on a dobby loom
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- Fathom Squared in 100m Year: 2014 Medium: Cotton, polyester, sewing pins Size: 6′ x 6′ Handwoven tape measure 100m in length, depicting inches on one side of the cloth and centimeters on the other
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- Fathom Squared in 100m (detail) Year: 2014 Medium: Cotton, polyester, sewing pins Size: 6′ x 6′ Detail image
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- Deep-Sea Oil Prospects, Northern Gulf of Mexico Year: 2014 Medium: Surplus polyolefin donated by Amoco, cotton, steel Size: 10′ x 4.5′ Seismic cross‑section from the Northern Gulf of Mexico, depicting a space that plunges more than 11,000 feet below the ocean floor
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- Deep-Sea Oil Prospects, Northern Gulf of Mexico Year: 2014 Medium: Surplus polyolefin donated by Amoco, cotton, steel Size: 10′ x 4.5′ Detail image
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- Seismic Line Year: 2013 Medium: Surplus Amoco-‐‑donated polyolefin, cotton, steel Size: 10.5′ x 5′ Here the layers of cloth are woven together along the scale, which acts as a point of entry to understand the textile as a map, and simultaneously as a point of confusion by obscuring and gather the fabric at that point
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- Deep-Sea Oil Prospects, Northern Gulf of Mexico #4 (Salt Diapirs) Year: 2014 Medium: Surplus Amoco-donated polyolefin, cotton, steel cable Size: 10′ x 9.5′ Here I use an algorithm to vary the density of the warp, creating the vertical bars
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- Seismic Mound Year: 2013 Medium: Surplus Amoco-donated polyolefin, cotton, steel Size: 6′ x 6′ x 1′ Woven as three layers of cloth on the loom, but pinned together into one layer along the geologic mound depicted, the textile becomes sculptural
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- Moiré Year: 2014 Medium: Surplus Amoco-donated polyolefin, cotton, steel Size: 10′ x 4.5′ A photograph of a moiré translated onto a textile becomes an invented landscape
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- FATHOM (installation shot) Year: 2013 Medium: Discarded acrylic sweaters, wood, aluminum, steel Size: variable Installation at Mission Gallery in Chicago, IL
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- FATHOM (installation shot) Year: 2013 Medium: Discarded acrylic sweaters, wood, aluminum, steel Size: variable Installation at Mission Gallery in Chicago, IL
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- Unit “Feu” (installation at the School of Decorative Arts) Year: 2015 Medium: Earth, paper, wool, polyester Size: Installation Using earth that I excavated from the grounds of the Bureau of Weights and Measures, I created a scale floorplan of its principal building with the altered manuscripts of Emilie du Chatelet and of Voltaire appropriately occupying the chemistry lab.
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- Acrylic, 100-yard takes Year: 2013 Medium: Digital photo Size: variable Here I document my recuperation of acrylic yarn from discarded sweaters; each frame documents 100 yards of reclaimed material.
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- Tesselation Year: 2013 Medium: Cotton, polyolefin Size: 8″ x 8″ This is a materialization of a tesselation I created using the program Mathematica
- FATHOM
This video is documentation from a six-hour performance that took place during a month-long exhibition.
FATHOM is a bodily investigation into acrylic fibers and their petroleum roots.
- For Penelope This video loops the unraveling (and regrowth) of the hem of an acrylic sweater.