GoodYear Arts Resident Artist, SUMMER 2024
GoodYear Arts
Goodyear Arts is an artist-led, nonprofit residency and multi-arts events program based on this truth: Artists need TIME, SPACE, MONEY, and COMMUNITY. In underused commercial spaces, they offer paid studio residencies for excellent and daring local visual, literary, and performing artists and present free-and-public arts events.
During my time at Goodyear I was granted a sizable studio, budget and the trust to bring a very ambitious project to fruition.
This culminated in the creation of :
“Things Don’t Always Come Full Circle” a 48 x 96 in. acrylic behemoth meant to illustrate how we experience and navigate traumatic change.
The assemblage of slowly spinning dots gradually transition from order to chaos, with the circles becoming less organized and more chaotic before returning to order in the end.
My residency showcase and subsequent artist talk were a huge success and featured my large spinning machine as well as the work of two tremendous fellow artist Sam Digges-Hunter & Lauren Weeks.
Photos courtesy of Dana “Bliss” White
QC Family Tree Culture Bearer residency, September 2023
QC family tree
During this 10 Week Residency I worked alongside 3 others artist to put together a cohesive body of work that culminated in art exhibition and experience at the end of the residency. We were tasked with creating work that amplified the voices of the residents of Enderly Park, referencing their experiences with housing insecurity and gentrification.
My work consisted of Giclee prints, backlit by LED lighting affixed to motion sensors, and a spray painted resin sculpture.
The residency was rewarding, and exhausting in the best way. The subject matter was heavy and very human. I worked hard to create work that both represented my style and also felt authentic to the experiences that I both heard about and witnessed during my time in Enderly community.
Everybody Fights, 2023 (QCTF Culture Bearer Residency)
Giclee on Art Natural 300 Paper, with LED lighting
24 x 28 in
In this piece, we see gentrification personified in the form of a giant machine.Perhaps more importantly we see the neighborhood fighting back together.In time of crisis, all hands grab a rope to resist the machinations of the machines.
Serene Fury, 2023 (QCTF Culture Bearer Residency)
Spray Paint on Resin
24 x 28 in
This sculpture seeks to illustrate the paradox of beautiful violence.
Often times we only recall the bloody, visceral nature of violence, with a blind spot for its more sinister, silent sister.
We see shiny new things, new houses, and often neglect to realize the severe consequences that comes with them.
This solid resin club, though decorated to look quite fanciful, is still a club, and still quite dangerous.
We structured the exhibit to be reminiscent of the home. My room was staged to look like the living room, where you often come relax, but where the stresses of day, month, year, still loom overhead.
The residency experience concluded a few months after the exhibition with an artist talk in collaborations with Boom Charlotte and 3 Bone Theatre.
Auction May 2024
McColl Center Benefit Auction 2024
This was my second year participating in the McColl Center’s Benefit Auction. This time I exhibited and sold 2 pieces. Meteorite (Below) and Please Don’t Hang Up (Right).
The Benefit Art Auction is an annual fundraising event that brings together artists, community members, collectors, and donors to celebrate and support individual artists and McColl Center. Collectors can bid on work in person or online and participating artists can receive 50% commission on the sale price of their work. All proceeds from the event support McColl Center programming.
Solo Show July 2023
Genesis
Auction May 2023
McColl Center Benefit Auction
McColl Center is a nationally acclaimed artist residency and contemporary arts hub in Uptown Charlotte, North Carolina.
The Benefit Art Auction is an annual fundraising event that brings together artists, community members, collectors, and donors to celebrate and support individual artists and McColl Center. Collectors can bid on work in person or online and participating artists can receive 50% commission on the sale price of their work. All proceeds from the event support McColl Center programming.
I participated and sold my work “Signature Circle” in the third annual auction.
