GROUNDSWELL (2016-2020)
Groundswell is an allegory about the human psyche and ecological and existential uncertainty. Tracing a nearby stretch of the Missouri River during a period of historic flooding, I invite chance encounters and collaboration to envision the desires, fantasies, and fears of ordinary lives at a threshold. The Midwest embodies weather lands—here economies and livelihoods, secure attachments and sustainable futures, wonder and awe, are all intricately tied to land which lives by unpredictable forces of nature and acts of God. It is also the formative landscape of my childhood, and home region to which I returned in an age of mounting anxiety and doubt. Making ambiguous tableaus across this time and space, I use continuity editing to fluidly sequence them into an unreliable narrative flow, while revealing an intimate entanglement of beings. The work raises questions of our place within an increasingly precarious ecosystem, and our faith to attend to it.
Please click on the image links below to view the portfolio of this body of work as well as documentation of exhibitions and publications.
EXHIBITIONS
2021 Kansas City Flatfile, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
2021 Art in the Park: Homestead Through the Eyes of Artists-in-Residence, Homestead National Historical Park, Beatrice, NE
2020 Midwest Midwinter, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
2019 Beyond the Missouri, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE (Solo)
2019 Studio Land Lyric, The University of Kansas Art & Design Gallery, Lawrence, KS
2018 Tallgrass Artist Residency Group Exhibition, The Bank Art Space, Matfield Green, KS
2018 Arc/D Faculty Show, The University of Kansas Art and Design Gallery, Lawrence, KS
2018 Context 2018, Filter Space, Chicago, IL (Juror: April Watson)
2016 The Camera is a Clock, University of Kansas Art and Design Gallery, Lawrence, KS
RESIDENCIES
2019 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE (May - June)
2018 U.S. National Park Service, Homestead National Monument of America, Beatrice, NE (August)
2018 Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission, Tallgrass Artist Residency, Matfield Green, KS (July)
2016 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE (January - March / May - June)
AWARDS & HONORS
2020 CENTER Review Santa Fe, Selected
2019 University of Kansas, General Research Fund Award
2018 University of Kansas, General Research Fund Award
2017 5th Annual New York Portfolio Review, Selected
2017 University of Kansas, New Faculty General Research Fund Award
PUBLICATIONS
2022 Lenscratch, Photo NOLA: Groundswell
2018 And light followed the flight of sound, Eliot Dudik and Jared Ragland, One Day Projects
COLLECTIONS
2020 U.S. National Park Service, Homestead National Monument of America, Beatrice, NE
2017 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE
PRESENTATIONS
2021 Art Forum Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS, November 3
2018 Tallgrass Artist Residency Symposium, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, KS, October 13