Giving primacy to Queer experience and language and repossessing desire is most useful to those of us on the periphery; where liminal and unnamed spaces are like an airport for identity – neither the departure location nor destination – non-places in which we translate ourselves for the need: nights and loud and intimate and work and obligation and the view of others, the desire and the need (and the need and the need).
I catch viewers unaware; changing the level at which they are addressed, caught thinking they are looking at something else. The viewer is moving, playing, reading.
Reading.
The viewer moves into the space on their terms, and leaves on mine. There is no passive presentation; the act of looking becomes reading becomes connecting their experience to mine; interior selves meeting in the locker room, where I refuse to look away from them as I change into my gym clothes.
Education
1997 BFA, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, Areas of Concentration: Artist’s Books, Photography, and Installation
2007-2008 College of Education, Seton Hall University, Areas of Graduate Study: Educational Leadership, Management and Policy
Professional Experience
2002-present Fine Arts Educator, Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School, Rumson NJ
2007-present Teaching Artist, The Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury NJ
1999-2002 Studio Arts Educator, Hoboken Charter School, Hoboken NJ
1997-1999 Teacher of the Gifted and Talented (Visual Arts), Warren Hills Regional Schools, Washington NJ
Exhibitions
2020 Confluence, Oceanic Library, Rumson NJ
2018-ongoing Birds of the Navesink / Naturehood WatchWater stations throughout Red Bank Borough NJ
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