Born:
January 10th, 1988
Raised:
AL, LA, and MS Gulf Coast
Currently Live:
Asheville, NC
Educated:
Ocean Springs High School- Diploma in The Pains of Growing Up
East Mississippi- Associates of Liberal Arts/ Pre-Medical Track
Brevard College- Bachelors of Exercise Science and Physiology
Life- Compassion, Innovation, and Humility
Worked:
Disaster Relief and Response
Psychiatric Residential Treatment for Children of Trauma
Therapeutic Residential Boarding School for Girls
Addictions Recovery and Rehabilitation for Teens and Adults
What I Do:
Imagine, Seek, Create and Share Beauty from that which is often Overlooked
in Hopes of Improving Lives in both Moments and through Charity.
Why I Do It:
For the Same Reason a Bird Flies Despite Having Two Perfectly Good Legs for Walking.
Materials:
Much of my art is composed almost entirely of natural, discarded, recycled, or repurposed materials. These components are often salvaged from scrap piles, roadsides, alleyways, or other overlooked or forgotten places fallen through the cracks of our world and in which I probably should not so openly admit to spending my time.
These items keep an inner history of former lives, from the wood that stood as a barn for over a century, to the hinges from Habitat for Humanity which were stripped away to open new doorways for families, to the rusted pieces of decomposing invention and industry back to their true natural states.
Awards:
2016
--Best of 2016 Award Thumbtack.com
2015
--Best of 2015 Award Thumbtack.com
--Exposure Awards International Interiors Photograph Selection
Paris, France
--Favorite Photographs of 2014 Exhibition, Lenscratch
2014
--Photograph Selection
Jones Soda Worldwide
--Special Recognition
16th Annual International Online Exhibition Upstream People Gallery
--Special Recognition
Women Artists Exhibition Focus Point International Gallery
Exhibitions and Installations:
2017
--Gallery Feature, Broken Light Collective, Online
--Gallery Feature for Texture Competition, LA Photo Curator, Online
--Visual Poetry Publication in Quaint Magazine, Online and in Print
2016
--Installation, MaryFrank Salon, Asheville, North Carolina
--Book Cover How We Bury Our Dead by Faith Garbin/ Negative Capability Press
--Art Publication in Phosphene Magazine, International Online
--Photography Featured in Style Blueprint Magazine
2015
--Photography Featured in Offbeat Bride Online Magazine
--Photography Publication in The Tishman Review, International Print
--Installation, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Center, Asheville, North Carolina
--Catabwa Brewing Art Bazaar, Asheville, North Carolina
--Food Truck Friday Festival, Asheville, North Carolina
--Publication in Exposure Awards Interiors Collection Book
--Sweeten Creek Art Extravaganza, Asheville, North Carolina
--Exposure Awards Photographic Display, The Louvre, Paris, France
--Selection for Exhibition Greenpoint Gallery, New York
--Photography Publication CALYX International Journal of Art and Literature
--Solo Installation, Rossetta's Kitchen
--1st National Online Photography Exhibit Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts
2014
--2014 Juried Photography Exhibition Shenandoah Valley Art Center
--Photograph Exhibition, Lenscratch Gallery
--Publication in Blotterature Literary Magazine
--Publication in 3Elements Review
--Publication in If and Only If Journal
--Acceptance for Representation Agora Gallery in New York CIty
--2014 National Juried Photography Exhibition The Academy of Fine Arts
--Solo Photography Installation, Twin Leaf Brewery
--International Women Artists Online Exhibition Focus Point Gallery
--16th Annual International Online Exhibition Upstream People Gallery
--Art in the Airport Exhibition, Asheville Regional Airport
--The Trouble with Ghosts, solo exhibition and event for Communities in Schools, Firestorm Cafe
2013
--Solo Installation, The Altamont Brewery
--Heart Works Exhibition, North Carolina Stage Company
--Solo Installation, The Lexington Avenue Brewery
