Cloth, in its seemingly infinite varieties of texture, weight, appearance, and significance, is deeply linked to our histories and emotions through the corporeal body. A simple touch can trigger vivid memories and powerful associations; some unique to a single life, some shared across an entire culture. I make cloth that pulls at these connections, investigating relationships between our physical bodies and mental spaces through the act of weaving cloth by hand. By imbedding handwoven cloth with the language of the body, I bring tangibility and tactility to psychological landscapes and emotional states. Here, the monumental quality of scale suggests a mental rather than physical space. Alone or in reflective pairs, all my figures are stains within cloth, like faint remainders of a life. They are my connecting threads, binding personal experience with the shared experience of being human.
Comfort exhibited in Ambiguity and Interface (Taubman Museum, Roanoke, VA), Lasting Impressions (Lorie Saunders Gallery, Norfolk, VA), Where We Meet (True Luck Gallery at the Visual Arts Center, Richmond, VA), Rijswijk Textile Biennial (Museum Rijswijk, Rijswijk, The Netherlands) and Multiple Personalities (Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO)
From Here exhibited in Forecast (Penland Gallery, Penland, NC), Rijswijk Textile Biennial, Multiple Personalities, and Two Artists One Space (Green Hill Center, Greensboro, NC)
Holding In exhibited in Two Artists One Space, Interwoven (Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts, Melbourne, FL), Mindbody (Artspace Gallery, Raleigh, NC) and Almost Famous (Bev Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA)
Quietly, Quietly exhibited in Interwoven, Lasting Impressions, Kinsey Institute Juried Show (Grunwald Gallery, Bloomington, IN) and the traveling exhibition Fiberart International 2011
The Awareness exhibited in the 5th International Student Triennial (Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey). Collected by Marmara University.