Visual Art

My work as a visual artist explores how we interpret our perceptions and how we create geographies of meaning based on those interpretations.

Imparting a visible form to these geographies is my primary endeavor. Each piece grows from an ongoing examination of how we choose to inquire into the many layers of existence and of how we make decisions in shaping our worlds. I place pieces together in specific sites to form constellations of objects, images, texts, videos and interactions.

Selected Exhibits and Projects 

2012    For Speed Killed My Cousin , written and performed by The Carpetbag Theatre, I created a video installation to serve as the stage environment (see video excerpt and still images in gallery at right). Speed explores multiple issues related to war, including the history of otherness of African Americans in the military, the experiences of women in combat and the inter-generational impacts of Post-Traumatic Stress (PTS). The performance takes place almost entirely from the seats of a Humvee in a night drive along the Long Island Expressway. The challenge for me as an artist was to create a video installation that evokes a larger universe of spiritual and physical movement, questioning, revelation and reflection, in which the actors' journey can transpire. Speed Killed My Cousin was written by Linda Parris-Bailey for The Carpetbag Theatre.
Directed by Andrea Assaf. 

2009    
Here and Now  
(Coordinator, Curator.Group collaborative installation)
National Performance Network Annual Conference
Emporium Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee    

2007-08
Environment: Common Good, Common Responsibility
(Group exhibit. catalog)
Foundation of Charles-Leopold Mayer, Paris
Oscar Araipe Foundation, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Paraty House of Culture, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Annual Congress of Greek Ecological Association, Corfu

2003    
Trading Visions
(Two-person, collaborative Installation)
Sponsored by the Tennessee Economic Renewal Network
and the Tennessee Arts Commission

2001-03    
Borderlands
(Group exhibit)
Khabarovsk Academy of Art, Khabarovsk, Russia
Center for the Visual Arts, Denver, Colorado
Glenwood Springs Center for the Arts, Colorado      

2001-03    
Death Without Borders    
(Group exhibit) 
Teatro Jose Peon Contreras, Merida, Yucatan
Givens Institute, Aspen, Colorado
Steam Plant, Salida, Colorado                         

2002    
SINAPSIS, 3rd Biennale Iberoamerican de Lima 
(Group exhibit)
Galeria Corriente Alterna, Lima, Peru.
Sponsored by the U.S. Embassy
and the Escuela de Arte Corriente Alterna        

2002    
Art and Ecology: Mexican and American Perspectives, A Bi-National Exhibition
(Group exhibit)
Colorado Mountain College Center for Excellence in the Arts

2002    
Delegation to Mexico on Trade and Globalization
(Artist-Member)
Sponsored by the Tennessee Economic Renewal Network

2001    
Art and Death
(Group exhibit)
Sala de Exposiciones, Casa Tlaxcala, Representaciones de Gobierno de Tlaxcala, Mexico City

2000    
Little Boat, Big Water
(Solo exhibit)
Truman State University, Missouri

2000  
Approaches, Illuminations, Divides
(Coordinating Artist and Presenter, group exhibit)
LatCrit V National Conference, Breckenridge, Colorado

2000    
Of Work and Earth
(Coordinating Artist, group installation; catalog)
Firehouse Center for the Arts, Longmont, Colorado        

1999    
Reflexiones del Alma
(Group collaborative exhibit)
Orozco Gallery, National University of Mexico, Mexico City
Galeria Rancho de Comate Cuitolco, by invitation of Nahum Zenil, Tenango del Aire, Mexico