My work is focused on photographic records depicting the youth of my parents and their experiences as children and young adults living in 1950's and 60's New York. Since a young age I have been continually drawn to the strangely faded photographs in my mothers dusty old photo albums. Peering at these photos I have long wished I could remember the moments captured within the image for myself, that I had experienced the events and situations, these framed moments, pieces of something bigger.
By adapting the images and splicing them together through collage and use of mixed media I have juxtaposed these fragments of my families past and altered them into a history of my own.
The image altering process begins by photocopying and applying the enlarged pictures to board thus leaving me with a solid foundation for my painting. The flat image acts as a guideline and allows me complete freedom to alter things as I see fit.
This form of working leaves more room for experimentation because there is virtually an unlimited supply of source material. Some images are manipulated in ways that seem very graphic but in others they become more abstracted. Each image creates it’s own unique decision making process.
I often frame my altered image on the board to reinforce the photographic origins of the piece and thus containing the new memory which I have created.
Born – 15/11/85 in New Jersey, U.S.A
Lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland.
Education
2004 -- 2006 Painting Major at Arcadia University, Glenside, Pennsylvania
Transferred in 2006 to Glasgow School of Art. Graduated with a Ba(hons) degree in Fine art in 2008.
Awards
The Royal Glasgow Institute Award. Given based on work at the GSA degree show 2008
Past exhibitions
2006 Painting year 2 group show at Newbury Gallery in Glasgow School of Art. One painting “The Day I bought a Hat”
2007 Painting year 3 group show at Newbury Gallery. Several small drawings “Drawings from Polaroids, The Photo Album”
"Print Matters" 2007 group show at Glasgow Print Studios, King Street. Two prints “Alex Deterioration 1 and 2”
2008 Degree show. Glasgow School of Art “The Photo Album”
Four Paintings from "The photo album" at Compass Gallery's Christmas exhibition 2008-09
One painting in the "We Were Made Collective" group show, "This is the Modern World."
Gallowgate. 2009.
2 Paintings in
RGI Postcard Exhibition.
Douglas st.
2009
2 Paintings in
Roger Billcliffe Postcard exhibition.
2009
Solo show in West End Gallery, now James Walter Gallery, Trongate.
2009
"Constructs" group show. The Whitehouse Gallery. 2009
Glasgow Art Fair 2009, 2010
Currently:
Works from the photo-album in:
Annan Gallery
Woodlands Road
christmas exhibition
and
The Universal Bar,
Sauchiehall Lane.
