Art
Statement
Gaming is exhilarating and immersive, but repeated exposure to high-intensity experiences without consequence creates emotional flattening. In first-person shooters, violence is replayed endlessly, until what was once shocking becomes frictionless and neutral. My work isolates and repaints these digital war zones to slow down what games ask us to process instantly. By returning these images to physical material, I reintroduce duration, weight, and the possibility of feeling.
This is a critique of the systems that shape how we feel. It shows how repeated intensity becomes numbness, and how digital violence turns aesthetic once it can be endlessly respawned.
History
Awards and Nominations
2014 Will & Elena Barnet Painting Award, SMFA
2013 Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg Exchange Award
2013 Boit Award, SMFA
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2014 Re-spawning Sense: an MFA Thesis Exhibition, Mission Hill Gallery, Boston, MA
2014 It’s Just a Game, Hinterconti Gallery, Karoviertel, Hamburg, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Platform Art Fair, NY, NY
2016 Proof of Concept, Riverfront Gallery, Yonkers Public Library, NY, NY
2016 60 Americans, Makeshift Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2016 On the Periphery the Edge of Sight, Uforge Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
2015 Brave New Worlds, Affenfaust Galerie, U-Werk Karoline, Hamburg, Germany
2015 Multifarious, Trade PopUp, Providence, RI
2015 New Rituals: Young Boston Artists, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2014 Surface, Pop Up Gallery, Wedding, Berlin, Germany
2014 Open Studios, ASA Residence, Karolinenviertel, Hamburg, Germany
2014 Removed: HFBK International Exhibition, Dock 7 Gallery, St. Pauli, Hamburg, Germany
2014 Graduating Students and Award Recipients, Grossman Gallery, Boston, MA
2014 Part II of Convergence, Khaki Gallery, SoWa, Boston, MA
2013 Empathic Disgust, Mission Hill Gallery, Boston, MA
2013 Utopia/Dystopia: An Exhibition of Art and Writing, Gallery X, New Bedford, MA
2013 I Know What You Did Last Summer, Mission Hill Gallery, Boston, MA
2013 Violence Transformed, State House, Beacon Hill, MA
2013 Violence Transformed, RVCC Resnikoff Gallery, Roxbury, MA
2013 Sting! XIV: Future Futurist, Beehive, South End, MA
2012 Graduating Students and Award Recipients, Grossman Gallery, Boston, MA
2012 Medium Without Measure, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2012 Bricolage, Pop Up Gallery, SoWa, Boston, MA
2012 Violence Transformed, State House, Beacon Hill, MA
2012 Violence Transformed, RVCC Resnikoff Gallery, Roxbury, MA
2011 Student Show, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2010 Student Show, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2009 Violence Transformed, RVCC Resnikoff Gallery, Roxbury, MA
2008 Eastern Penitentiary Art Exhibition, Far Hills, NJ
Artist Residences
2016 Fellini Gallery, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
2014 The Art School Alliance, Hamburg, Germany
2013 The Distillery, South Boston, MA
Artist Talks
2016 On the Periphery the Edge of Sight, Uforge Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
2015 Easing the Transition: Self Care and Management for Artists, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2014 Hamburg Travel Talk, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Curatorial Projects
2016 On the Periphery the Edge of Sight, Uforge Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
2015 Art Unanchored (Mobile Exhibition), MS Stadt Wien, Vienna, Austria
2014 Removed: HFBK International Exhibition, Dock 7 Gallery, St. Pauli, Hamburg, Germany
2013 Violence Transformed, RVCC Resnikoff Gallery, Roxbury, MA