I'm an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of historical semiotics and contemporary cybernetic visual reception...
[...] In other words, I enjoy picking apart history and getting down and dirty with what we consider beautiful. I like asking what beauty can be, and in turn I hope to consider how objects inform us of ourselves and our volatile, shared histories. At its core, my work wants to consider how presentation, ornament, aesthetic gesture, technology, categorization, and historicism inform our sense of self and community.
As an undergrad I divided my studies between literature and art history before delving into the realm of Visual Culture as a graduate at Illinois State. The critique of images and the philosophy of art have punctuated my years, with an interdisciplinary eye toward the ways we use signs and symbols (words and images) to communicate, as well as interpret, ideas.
My approach to creative mediums, like my approach to the concepts that challenge my understanding, are varied and experimental to the point of pastiche. The collage that happens when materials are juxtaposed, or when theories are examined through new, overlapping lenses, constitutes my personal and professional passions. Craft and critique—as verbs and nouns—are themselves my tools as well as my subjects.
As an artist and a designer I seek new approaches to old challenges; to transform our cultures' baked-in comforts into laboratories for curiosity. I want to draw attention to the process of reception; a process that might otherwise be taken for granted. I strive to make the act of looking fun, but I also strive to make fun meaningful.
Selected Press & Clients
Italian Vogue
New York Times
Viking Press
Wired Magazine
IKEA
Allure
Le Monde, Le Magazine
Der Spiegel
Elle Decoration
Adbusters
Behance
Ugo Guanda Editore
The Times, UK
Now Magazine
Telegraph Magazine
Harvard Business Review
Vice Media
Penguin Press
Huffington Post
Rizzoli Publishing
Bavarian State Opera
Goop
Fast Company
La Monnaie Opera, Belgium
FADER Magazine
Australian Vogue
C: California Style
Society6
House & Garden
Max Joseph Magazine