MORE ABOUT ME, ME, ME
I’ve found a niche I love working at science publications. My current role is Art director at The Transmitter, a neuroscience publication for scientists. I oversee and direct media and visuals, commissioning illustrations, photography, and videos as well as pitching and writing articles, directing content strategy and leading projects. Click here to see my art direction portfolio.
I’ve been honored with awards from The Art Directors Club, American Photography, Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts, American Illustration, ASME, The Azbees, Int’l Motion Art Award from Ai-Ap, Society of Publication designers, and The Tellys, among others.
I've taught photography at the California College of the Arts and Rutgers University. I enjoy writing about art, photography and science — and I've been published by Wired, CNN, the National Academy of Sciences, The Wall Street Journal, Nautilus, Lensculture and others.
I’ve been a Webby, Anthem Award and Telly contest judge and a photography portfolio reviewer at Santa Fe Review, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Diversify Photo, Powerhouse books and PhotoAlliance among others.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
I’m compelled by opposites: The contrast of flatness with the volumetric, fluidity with stillness, of science with the metaphysical.
As a child I went on archaeological digs with my father. Fragments revealed stories that layered onto the landscape. Much of my artwork imagines phenomena both seen and unseen.
My photographs are cycles. My photographs are performances. My photographs are experiments. They start as drawings, and become temporary constructions before being photographed and becoming flat again.
In an alchemical process of play and plan, matter might be carbon molecules or planets in eclipse, portals, or dissolving into sound waves.
ABBREVIATED EXHIBITION HISTORY
I’m represented by Centre Claude Cahun for Contemporary photography in Nantes, France. Exhibition history includes solo exhibitions at Roebling Hall Gallery in New York City, Centre Claude Cahun, and Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Multiple group shows include “In Extemis” in Nantes, France, City Hall in San Francisco with SF Arts Commission, Center for Photography Woodstock, Perogi 2000 in Brooklyn and “Festival Off des Rencontres d’ Arles,” in Arles, France.
