March-July 2021
Mechanism of Choice at the State of Flux
Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Kingston Ontario
Exhibition Details
Artist Talk

The exhibition “Mechanism of Choice,” in the State of Flux Gallery at Modern Fuel ArtistRun Centre, examines and highlights different aspects of choice and decision making in everyday life through a collection of books, prints and sculptural works. The pieces within this exhibition work with game board pieces, machines and user guides; and focuses on the act of decision making where the answer or the decision is suspended at its climactic point to open up possibilities. In this way the works speak to a critical moment in time before a decision becomes resolved, the moment between a question and answer, and reveals the interior dialogues that surface when choosing or deciding.

The works speak to the anxiety that may be experienced when there are many choices for which rational factors are no longer sufficient. Ultimately, the exhibition explores logic
and behaviour in the context of making a decision, and through the isolation of this critical moment in time, looks at the ways in which people interact with and make sense of the world.

2019
Bursary Recipient
Artscape Daniels Launchpad, Toronto, ON

2018-2019
Juror - Visual Arts Projects
Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, ON

2016
18th Juried Members' Exhibition
Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Kingston, ON

2017
Syphon 4.0 Publication Writer/contributor for Sites
Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Kingston, ON

2016
Emerging Artist Residency - Award Recipient and Resident
Spark Box Studio, Picton, ON

2015
Centre3 Printmaking Residency - Award Recipient
Centre3 for Print and Media Arts (formerly The Print Studio), Hamilton, ON

2014
Graduate of Masters of Fine Arts (Studio Arts) specializing in Print Media
www.concordia.ca/finearts/studio-arts/a…|Concordia University|, Montréal, Quebec

January 31-February 2014
Watching Paint Dry
La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montréal, Quebec
Exhibition Details

“I would sit there for hours, mesmerized waiting for something to happen!” - YouTube maze screensaver comment

Watching Paint Dry questions pervasive contemporary attitudes and expectations in relation to technology. We live in a world where a video that features an outdated and outmoded screensaver generates some 8,330 results on YouTube and receives over 1 million views combined. But the idea of actually watching paint dry, once considered a forum for contemplation and letting the imagination wander, now has such negative connotations that it is akin to a kind of punishment and an absurd “waste of time.” Watching Paint Dry comes out of this kind of mindset and attempts to highlight this irony.

This exhibition positions two forms of walls in relation to each other: an analogue wall, synonymous with the expression “watching paint dry”, and a virtual or digital wall, in its most basic form as the Microsoft Windows 95/98 Maze Screensaver. These two kinds of walls are used as markers of two different sites, each imbued and ingrained with different cultural habits and attitudes. Watching Paint Dry highlights the shifting expectations, experiences and abilities in relation to analogue and digital sites and the ways in which certain sites are privileged or negated in terms of time, entertainment, and contemplation, as well as the value judgments inherent in this negotiation. Ultimately the works in the exhibition explore the ways in which we understand, conceptualize and make sense of our everyday life through a questioning of analogue and digital sites and the ways in which these sites are received in contemporary society.

2014
Frans Masereel Centrum Printmaking Residency
Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium

2014
Vermont Studio Center Residency & Artist Grant
Vermont Center, Johnson, Vermont, USA

2013
Sculptors Society of Canada 18th Annual Juried Graduating Sculpture Student Exhibition
Canadian Sculpture Centre, Toronto, ON