About
Ceramics Statement
Within my current ceramic practice, I create laser cut reliefs which I use as stamps on soft clay or Xerox’s transfers on clay as an ink transfer method. My work examines digital culture, mass media and my personal reflections as a user. As a young Millennial, internet browsing and passive consumption has been a part of my life since I was a child, and within my work, I consider the psychological and mental impact of growing up with this access. I look at social media platforms, news sites, clickbait, chat rooms, search engines, stock images and many other sources for inspiration.
I use clay to engage with digital themes since, despite its fragility, clay is one of our most archival materials; it’s often what archaeologists initially search for when looking for past civilizations. I see clay’s stable, physical and tactile qualities serve as a counter to the transient nature of the screen.
Within my Porcelain Paper series, I print digital imagery on porcelain tablets appearing as faux printer paper. The digital space is a vast archive instigating and recording both private and social behavior. We rely upon digital interfaces to deliver essential information as well as for social interaction. Though viewed as a vessel of stability, the digital interface is actually unstable. The information contained digitally is constantly shifting, updating and refreshing. Translating digital imagery onto the static, rigid surface of clay, however, allows me to mark and emboss subjective thought and feeling about the less accessible aspects of the digital. The faux printer paper makes clear this translation from digital to tactile. This materiality enables me to engage with the effect technology is having on human experience in a tangible way.
Painting Statement
My current body of paintings are made directly from cropped screenshots of my own internet searches. Through painting, I create lasting, confrontational objects in physical relationship with the viewer, countering the typically fleeting experience of seeing content through the flat, distancing interface of the screen. Guided by algorithms, the internet is a visual network, and representational choices are relentlessly naturalized through digital platforms on innumerable topics from the contentious to the banal. I capture specific moments that isolate these contradictions where thumbnails depicting global tragedy are paired with links for brunch recipes. My work serves as an investigation into the moral ambivalences produced in the viewing public.
EDUCATION
• 2022 Master of Fine Arts
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
• 2018 Bachelor of Fine Arts
University of Georgia
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• 2022- Fulltime Lecturer - Painting and Drawing
Central Michigan University
• 2020- Instructor of Record - Foundations level drawing
2022 University of Massachusetts- Amherst
• 2020 Graduate Project Assistant
University Museum of Contemporary Art
• 2019 Teaching Assistant - Painting
University of Massachusetts- Amherst
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
• 2022 Ambivalent Routines, Pennsylvania State University - Altoona, Pennsylvania
• 2022 Fragile Archive, Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, Maryland
• 2022 Mixed Messages: Thesis Exhibition, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts
RESIDENCIES
• 2022 Mudhouse Residency, Agios Ioannis, Crete
• 2018 Navasota Artist in Residence, Navasota, Texas
• 2018 Chautauqua School of Art, Chautauqua, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
•. 2023 (Forthcoming) 2023 International Juried Exhibition, The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ
• 2023 Midwest Regional Exhibition 2023, Artlink Contemporary Gallery, Fort Wayne, Indiana
• 2022 Out of Hand: Tradition Meets Tech, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Solomons,
Maryland (Juror: Fabiola Delgado)
• 2022 93rd Michigan Contemporary Art Exhibition, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan (Juror:
Kira Nam Greene)
• 2022 Paperworks, b. j. Spoke Gallery, Huntington, New York (Juror: Kiko Aebi)
• 2022 Closing Exhibition, Mudhouse Residency, Agios Ioannis, Crete, Greece
• 2022 True Stories, The Untitled Space, New York, New York (Curated by Indira Cesarine)
• 2022 Rustbelt: REDUX, Vestige Concept Gallery, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
• 2022 By Visceral Effect, StartaArta, New York, New York
• 2022 Unearthed Online: A Virtual Zoonotic Hex Exhibition, Field Projects, New York, New York
• 2021 Ham Sandwich, AHA Fine Art, Brooklyn, New York
• 2021 New Directions 2021, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York (Juror: Vivian Li)
• 2021 Lost & Found, Vacant Museum, Online
• 2021 Reimagining the Real, Emery Community Arts Center, University of Maine-Farmington (Juror: Ann Bartges)
• 2021 This Moment of Rupture, VisArts, Rockville, Maryland (Juror: Margaret Boozer)
• 2021 People Places Things, Project Gallery V, Online, New York (Juror: Samantha Rippner)
• 2021 2021 National Juried Exhibition, Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick Maryland (Juror: Margaret Winslow)
• 2021 Adrift, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, New York (Juror: Steffi Chappell)
• 2021 Printin', St. Louis Artists' Guild, St. Louis, MO (Juror: Aaron Coleman)
• 2021 Variations 2021, Marblehead Arts Association, Marblehead, MA (Juror: Beth C. McLaughlin)
• 2020 What Now? Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, Connecticut (Online)
• 2020 A Ceramics Exhibition, The In Art Gallery (Juror: Professor Mathew McConnell)
• 2019 Wherever I may be the sky is mine, Herter Gallery, Amherst MA (Curated by Professor Young Min Moon)
• 2019 A Room of Their Own: OCAF Summer Installation, Watkinsville, GA (invitational)
• 2019 Residency Closing Exhibition, Horlock House Art Gallery, Navasota, TX
• 2018 Chautauqua School of Art Annual Student Exhibition, Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, Chautauqua, NY
(Curated by Professor Don Kimes)
• 2018 Full House, Lyndon House Art Center, Athens, GA
• 2018 Everybody talking at once, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA
• 2017 Text and Image, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Juror: Edith Newhall, Critic, Philadelphia Inquirer)
• 2017 EMERGE: an Intercollegiate Art Student Exhibition, Blue Mark Studios, Atlanta, GA (Jurors Brian Seay, Director of Blue Mark Studios, and Anne Weems, gallery manager at Hathaway Gallery)
• 2017 Reflections of 2016, Kelwood Contemporary Art Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA (Juror: Jennifer Carwile)
• 2017 La Mostra, Lamar Dodd Gallery Space, Athens, GA
• 2016 La Mostra, UGA Cortona Gallery Space, Cortona, Italy
• 2016 Fl3tch3r Exhibit, Reece Museum, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN (Juror: Eric Avery)
• 2016 HPSC UGA Art Competition Winners, Turner Gallery, Athens, GA
• 2016 Student Art Competition Art Show, Botanical Garden Visitor Center, Athens, GA
AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS
• 2022 Block Grant, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Amherst MA
• 2021 Juror's Prize, New Directions 2021, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie New York (Juror: Vivian Li)
• 2021 1st place, National Juried Exhibition, Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, Maryland (Juror: Margaret
Winslow)
• 2021 3rd place, Printin', St. Louis Artists Guild, St. Louis, Missouri (Juror: Aaron Coleman)
• 2018 Thompson Summer Fellowship
• 2016 Cortona Art Incentive Scholarship
PUBLICATIONS
• 2021 Create! Magazine, Featured Artist: Issue 27
• 2019 VoyageHouston "Art & Life with Hannah Duggan", January 23
• 2018 Friend of the Artist Magazine, Featured Artist, Volume 5
• 2016 “2016 Fl3tch3r exhibit catalog” Reese Museum
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
• 2022 Presenter, Art Matters Artist Talks, Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick Maryland