In my professional work, I’m interested in spaces for creating and exhibiting artwork. Specifically, art studios fascinate me, and I enjoy collaborating with artists on the designs for their workspaces.
My continual interest is in constructing and/or extruding, through the use of geometry, “environmental objects” (buildings, follies, sculptural forms, constructed scapes) that fill narrative gaps in the landscape, welding together form and function and finishing the story.
My work draws me to sites with dynamic cultural and historical characteristics. I look for physical traces of use, abandonment, and preservation inscribed in the environment.
The process by which these objects are developed is documented with the architectural language of plans, sections, models, and renderings, resulting in the interconnected body of work reflecting various aspects of the project. I use multiple mediums (hand drafting, painting, printmaking, plaster models), often driven by the project's particular needs, to illustrate how one perceives the space contained or inscribed by the geometry.
This theoretical proposal for Wood Thrush Art Complex aims to provide work and exhibit space for the Chesterwood Art Residency program. The proposal results from a three-month residency at Chesterwood that concludes on Sunday, September 22nd. The project is inspired by the interplay of light and shadow in the constructed and natural landscape of the studio complex designed by D.C. French and H. Bacon.
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