Solo Show With a Generous Allowance of Time Jan. 8th, ’10 - Feb. 13, ’10

Available Work

Artist Statement

In his book, Basin and Range, John McPhee explains, “If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the boundaries of human time.”  I prefer to view the world from a geologic assimilation of time.  The human understanding of its duration is skewed and relative to our experience and mortality.  On a roughly 4 billion year timeline of Earth’s history, the human inhabitance is barely even visible.  Needless to say, the Earth was here long before humans, and will be here long afterwards.  I believe that for human beings to think we have the power to completely destroy the Earth is an expression of our vanity and arrogance. Words like “apocalypse” or “doomsday” have inherent religious connotation and suggest that the end of the world coincides with human extinction...  But the Earth will go on with or without us, and I take comfort in that fact.  Through all of the damage that human beings inflict on the earth (and therefore each other), nature will recover.

In my work I attempt to visualize the imperceptible geologic process by compacting millions of years into a single moment.  Rocks bend and grow.  Entire mountains crumble in an instant.  And the environmental damage that human kind has left in their wake has long since healed.   I’m drawn to how geologic processes (erosion, orogeny, etc) relate to our institutions (financial, governmental, etc).  I strive to present an era that defies human intervention in the landscape.  An optimistic view of the natural world, post human presence.

CV

Born in Nevada, USA, 1983.  Currently resides in San Francisco, CA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

SOLO

2010Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2006   BFA Final Show - LaVerne Krause Gallery, Eugene, OR

2004   Works on Paper - The Hearth, Eugene, OR 

GROUP

2010   Compelled - Root Division, San Francisco, CA

2009Annual Auction – Root Division, San Francisco, CA

Other Side of a Smile – OnSix Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Bay Area Currents – Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA

Annual Auction – Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

Pop Noir – Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

Landscapes / Dreamscapes Online Finalists – Jay Kay, NY and Switzerland

Monster Drawing Rally – Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

Annual Juried Exhibition – Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA

Night/Light – Afi and Associates, San Francisco, CA

2008   Annual Auction – Root Division, San Francisco, CA

What You See Galore 2 - Auto Body Fine Art Gallery, Alameda, CA

Mysteries in the Natural World - Caladan Gallery, Cambridge, MA

Under 100 - Root Division, San Francisco, CA

Intersection Auction  - Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

Vernissage MFA Graduation Show - Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA

Composing Biology - Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2007   Cut, Transform - Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Grounded - Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

Matrix Show - Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2006   No Style 5 - 22nd Tyler, Portland,  OR

2005   No Style 4 - Blue Room Gallery, Portland, OR

CURATORIAL WORK

2009New Growth, Root Division, San Francisco, CA

2008Cut Into Chaos, Mission 17 Gallery, San Francisco, CA

EDUCATION

2008   MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, CA

2006   BFA in Printmaking, University of Oregon, OR

HONORS AND AWARDS

2008   Root Division Artist in Residence, San Francisco, CA

2005   David McCosh Memorial Scholarship, University of Oregon

Department of Fine Art

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2009Bay Area Currents 2009, Fecal Face, August

Bay Area Currents 2009, SF Examiner (online), July

Spray Graphic Interview, Sprayblog, May

2008What You See Galore 2 Exhibition Catalogue, Auto Body Fine Art

MFA Graduate Exhibition Catalogue, San Francisco Art Institute

2006The Artwork of Adam Friedman, AAA Weekly, University of Oregon