MUSEUM + GALLERY

Corrupted Uncorrupted (2024)

2024 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI

For my MFA Thesis installation, I was inspired by “cabinets of curiosities” as framework to create an assemblage of stories and perspectives about the body, health, and mortality.

I was drawn to these collections of “unusual” objects because they offer a framework for telling multi-layered stories, including: the story of the individual objects, the stories of the objects in relation to one another, the story of the sometimes “invisible” or anonymous collector, and the story that a viewer might construct between themselves and the collection.

Read more about the conceptual development and research process on the MSU CAL News page here!

Overture(Polar) (2022)

Overture(Polar) (solo exhibit and satellite show to 1.5Celsius) in the New Horizons Gallery at the MSU Museum, East Lansing, MI, 2022

This started as an obsession with glaciers as archives of data, and a desire to illustrate these otherwise unseen depths. All too often, we value the world around us for its untapped resources or potential economic advantages. And it is too easy to forget both the interdependence between ourselves and our planet, and the importance of advocating for nature’s agency and protection.

The United States is an Arctic Nation, yet so many of us are geographically removed from polar regions, but we still indirectly interact with the polar ice caps. Instead of a claim to the natural resources and potential economic advantages of a particular region, maybe instead this means that we have a responsibility to the protection of this ecosystem, and an obligation of service to the people, flora, and fauna whose survival depends on the stability of polar ice whether directly or indirectly.