Education MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, May 2008 BA, Furman University, Greenville, SC, 2004
Upcoming May-June We Want A New Object, CalArts MFA Graduate Show (May-June) Curated by Christine Y. Kim & Malik Gaines Chinatown Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
June Changing Ties: Reconsidering Identity Through Cross-Cultural Interventions Avenue 50, Los Angeles, CA
info My recent work is concerned with the ebb and flow of histories. I see the work as a proposal of escape; not only for the subject of history itself, but also for myself and the viewer from familiar modes of receiving and interpreting historical data. I see history as not merely a paradigmatic series of moments, but active catalysts to the present and future, often in unexpected ways. This line of thought in my work has led me to consider the implications of documented representation, organic processes and speculative thought in my artmaking practices. Most histories exist in our society as systems, referring to the production and proliferation of visual and written data pertaining to these histories. Some of these systems can seem to operate according the model of a chaotic feedback loop, where the output repeatedly becomes the input in a never-ending recursive cycle. This model is of interest to me because it suggests a type of chaotic system that, though can seem to be eternal, has the propensity to be disrupted, violently or subtly, throwing the system into a chaos that could result in a completely new output production. Inherently embedded in this process is the incredible potential to reconsider and speculate a new and different history (future) that has the real ability to shape future knowledge and historical and cultural formation. I am not interested in binary stances, but rather entertaining, investigating and proposing a space where fact becomes fiction, history becomes myth and all truth is unstable.
