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Art and nature are humanity’s common language, and my primary instrument as an interdisciplinary artist and Master Naturalist.. I use this common language to tell stories, whether through narrative, movement, installation, poetry….
Within my current practice, I confront issues such as climate change, the Anthropocene urge to conquer the environment, food justice, identity, the intersection of access to wild space/mental health, finding the correlation of each to the other impossible to ignore .
In confronting these issues over the last decades in South Florida, New York City, and beyond, my chosen media has been fluid and responsive to the environmental conditions in which I work. My diverse materials include garbage, video and sound, poetry, fiber arts, cooking and food, plant and animal companions, and more traditional two- and three-dimensional work. I select my medium based on how the public can be best engaged in a site-specific piece: whether through installation, or performance, or workshops.
Tackling environmental and societal issues necessitates an acknowledgement that we are truly interdependent, participating in the story of our natural and built environments together, as a community and as a society. I frequently collaborate with organizations, individual scientists, and activists: NYC Audubon, Audubon Everglades, Rohi's Readery, EcoAmerica, the American Littoral Society, the Wild Bird Fund, firefly expert Dr. Sara Lewis, landscape ecologist Eric Sanderson, and more. I have offered presentations on art-based approaches to environmental justice and climate change as an ecoAmerica Climate for Health ambassador, and conduct workshops at Rohi’s Readery, a social justice-driven children’s bookstore. Much of this work is offered on a volunteer basis at established institutional spaces, and the majority is entirely grassroots, self-funded, and engages a broad and diverse public of all ages and backgrounds.
My visual and performance work has been shown in New York City at The Queens Museum, The Last Frontier, the Mothership, the Robert Miller Gallery, Denise Bibro Fine Arts, Art in Flux Harlem, Dixon Place and more. I have also been shown or appeared in LA, Johannesburg, Paris, Hong Kong, Sydney, Melbourne, Japan, New Jersey, Poughkeepsie, and New Mexico. In Florida, my work has appeared at the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County, Studio 18, Arts Warehouse, GallerRE (Resource Depot) and more. I have been in residence with the NYC Audubon, the Santa Fe Art Institute, and more, and most recently received a commission to create an installation and performance for the city of West Palm Beach through the ArtLife committee in partnership with the Mandel Library.
In choosing to create moments that are site specific, re-purposing mundane scavenged objects, using urgent movement and instinctive brushstrokes, I seek to create a tether from myself to others, a dialogue about our place, about what immobilizes us, tangles us up, throws us forward, breaks us down; a recognition that we are both less and more important that we imagine, and that we're all writing this story together.
Please visit FloridaArtResistance.org
Within my current practice, I confront issues such as climate change, the Anthropocene urge to conquer the environment, food justice, identity, the intersection of access to wild space/mental health, finding the correlation of each to the other impossible to ignore .
In confronting these issues over the last decades in South Florida, New York City, and beyond, my chosen media has been fluid and responsive to the environmental conditions in which I work. My diverse materials include garbage, video and sound, poetry, fiber arts, cooking and food, plant and animal companions, and more traditional two- and three-dimensional work. I select my medium based on how the public can be best engaged in a site-specific piece: whether through installation, or performance, or workshops.
Tackling environmental and societal issues necessitates an acknowledgement that we are truly interdependent, participating in the story of our natural and built environments together, as a community and as a society. I frequently collaborate with organizations, individual scientists, and activists: NYC Audubon, Audubon Everglades, Rohi's Readery, EcoAmerica, the American Littoral Society, the Wild Bird Fund, firefly expert Dr. Sara Lewis, landscape ecologist Eric Sanderson, and more. I have offered presentations on art-based approaches to environmental justice and climate change as an ecoAmerica Climate for Health ambassador, and conduct workshops at Rohi’s Readery, a social justice-driven children’s bookstore. Much of this work is offered on a volunteer basis at established institutional spaces, and the majority is entirely grassroots, self-funded, and engages a broad and diverse public of all ages and backgrounds.
My visual and performance work has been shown in New York City at The Queens Museum, The Last Frontier, the Mothership, the Robert Miller Gallery, Denise Bibro Fine Arts, Art in Flux Harlem, Dixon Place and more. I have also been shown or appeared in LA, Johannesburg, Paris, Hong Kong, Sydney, Melbourne, Japan, New Jersey, Poughkeepsie, and New Mexico. In Florida, my work has appeared at the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County, Studio 18, Arts Warehouse, GallerRE (Resource Depot) and more. I have been in residence with the NYC Audubon, the Santa Fe Art Institute, and more, and most recently received a commission to create an installation and performance for the city of West Palm Beach through the ArtLife committee in partnership with the Mandel Library.
In choosing to create moments that are site specific, re-purposing mundane scavenged objects, using urgent movement and instinctive brushstrokes, I seek to create a tether from myself to others, a dialogue about our place, about what immobilizes us, tangles us up, throws us forward, breaks us down; a recognition that we are both less and more important that we imagine, and that we're all writing this story together.
Please visit FloridaArtResistance.org
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