Artistic Practice
Inspired by books like The Un-Natural State: Arkansas and The Queer South and Men Like That: A Southern Queer History, Instagram accounts such as @truckslutsmag and @queerappalachia, and my own upbringing in rural Arkansas, this series seeks to convey the richness of southern and rural LGBT+ identities through the reference of multiple and sometimes conflicting visual referents. The combination or contrast of everyday objects address gender and sexuality, but also class and the rural.
Utilizing found objects and specific materials that evoke class, queerness, and the rural, the pieces in Down South subvert strong Southern gender norms through the evoking of the queer bodily in witty and unusual ways to depict another view of the rural which is queer resistance and ingenuity.
Exhibition Record
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 violets at midnight, Art Academy of Milton, Milton, PA.
2021 PRESENT, Stephens Gallery, University of the Ozarks, Clarksville, AR.
2019 Summer Crush, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS.
Friends and Lovers, Resident Arts Gallery, Columbia, MO.
2016 Mixed Methods, University of Arkansas at Monticello, Monticello, AR.
2014/15 Floral Collection, Historic Arkansas Museum, Little Rock, AR.
2013 Loud White Space, Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, Blue Mountain Lake, NY.
Figures in Space, The Shed Gallery, Fayetteville, AR.
2011 Stories in Stitches, Arkansas River Valley Arts Center, Russellville, AR.
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Vessels, Curator: Julian Graham, Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL.
2024 Jurors: Carmen M. Perez-Stoppert and Mary Stoppert, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Delta Triennial, Curators: Amy Kligman, Alexis McGrigg, and Takako Tanabe, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR.
Out in the Margins, Curator: Will Wheeler, Gallery on Greenly Center, Bloomsburg, PA.
2023 In this Body of Mine, Curators: Joan Cox and Liz Faust, MassArt x SoWa Gallery, Boston, MA.
People Next Door, Curator: Bri Peterson, Acansa Gallery, North Little Rock, AR.
It Was All Very Queer, Juror: Brandon Anschulz, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, St. Louis, MO.
Southern Futurisms, Jurors: Dana-Marie Lemmer and T.K. Smith, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.
Ozark Home, Curator: Samantha Signon, The Medium, Springdale, AR.
Different Names, Curator: Whitney LaMora, The Martin Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2022 Each Other, Juror: Danielle Fiesta, Aplomb Gallery, Dover, NH.
Beyond Craft, Juror: Adrienne Scott, Chico Art Center, Chico, CA.
Tender with the Other, Curator: Summer Tomes, Wavelength Gallery, Chattanooga, TN.
Growing up Queer in the South, Curator: Parks McAllister, Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, NC.
Queer, Curator: Brad Cushman, Fenix Gallery, Fayetteville, AR.
Star Children, Curators: Melissa Wilkinson and Hillary Brooks, Bradbury Museum of Art, Jonesboro, AR.
2020 The 15TH Amendment at 150: The Art of Voting, Curator: Brittany Keegan, Watkins Museum of History, Lawrence, KS.
Threads through Time, Curators: Brian Young and Sue Bennett, Baum Gallery of Art, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR.
2019 Art Biennial 600: Textile/Fiber, Juror: Alec Unkovic, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX.
Shifts Happen, Curators: Fausta Facciponte and Aimee Contnoir, Melanie Carr Gallery, Essex, CT.
Artists in Residence, Arts, Numbers, and Letters Gallery, Averill Park, NY.
Then, Here/Now: Creating Community in the Center, Tulsa Living Arts Gallery, OK.
2018 PINK, Curator: Melissa Wilkinson, Bradbury Museum of Art, Jonesboro, AR.
2016 Hide your Rubies, Shine your Diamonds, Butler Center Gallery, Little Rock, AR.
Arkansas Contemporaries: Then, Now, Next, Curator: Donna Uptigrove, Historic Arkansas Museum, Little Rock, AR
2014 2014 Small Works on Paper Exhibition, Juror: Mary Kennedy, Arkansas Arts Council, Traveling Exhibition.
2013 Women Take Flight Exhibition, Juror: Fran Otten, Fayetteville Underground, Fayetteville, AR.
Ovolution, Curator: Lilia Hernandez, 707 E. Main Street, North Little Rock, AR
Objectified, Washburn Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
38th Annual Toys Designed by Artists, Juror: Tim Tate, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR.
2012 SAAC Juried Competition, Juror: Manuela Well-Off-Man, South Arkansas Arts Center, El Dorado, AR.
2011 Boston Young Contemporaries, Jurors: Jen Mergel, Camilo Alvarez, and Matt Rich, Boston University Gallery, Boston, MA.