"“We can look at the text of any book and see the wealth of information contained in the writing, but in addition to the writing we can see a structured assembly of signs. It is the values we place on those visual arrangements that describe the meaning of the signs. Meaning thus evolves from meaning."

--Casey Curran

Artist's Statement:

With any machine, specific laws are needed to produce a functioning structure, and as with this rule there is a similar parallel to the structural relationship between text and visual art.  Each must follow determined laws of interdependence.  To produce a truth-seeming vision of realty (a functioning structure) the mind produces symbols categorized as expansive narratives from shared experiences.  Each narrative in its own right possesses a semiotic relationship to written and visual vocabulary, which should be thought of as nothing more than a group of signs interchangeable with real life experiences.  This interchange exists as a cohesive framework allowing one symbol to substitute another.  In art and in literature ‘reality’ is composed of these coded semiotic relations.

My work confronts these structural relationships and departs from the readily available patterns of literature, art, mechanics and mathematical notation.  By fusing the signing systems of each of these ‘vocabularies’ a new vision of ‘reality’ is expressed.  It is my hope that through participation and critical analysis each work creates a new symbol to a more expansive sphere of thought.

Education

2006
BFA, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA

Awards / Honors

2006
Poncho IFA awards of merit - ”Best of Show”, Sculpture/3-D Mixed

Media

2006
Selected for Fred Hutchinson Cornish BFA Art on Loan Program

2004
Cornish College of the Arts, Merit Scholarship

2003
Cornish College of the Arts, Merit Scholarship

1998
Norwestcon, Judges’ Choice Award for Sculpture

Exhibitions

2007
The Aesthetic of Complexity, VIVEZA Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Poncho 6th Annual Invitational Fine Art Auction, Seattle, WA

2006
Fred Hutchinson Cornish BFA Art on Loan Program, Seattle, WA
Turn Of A Crank, VIVEZA Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Cornish College of the Arts BFA Show, Seattle, WA
Emerging Artist Show,D’Adamo/Woltz Gallery, Seattle, WA
Shard, Center On Contemporary Arts (CoCA), Seattle, WA

2005
Humanist Show, Ace Gallery, Seattle, WA
Consumption, Olivadoce Art Gallery, Seattle, WA

2003
Merit Award Exhibition, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA

2002
Merit Award Exhibition, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA

1999
Norwestcon, Tacoma, WA

1998
Norwestcon, Tacoma, WA

Work Experience

2007
Guest instructor, The Link Program, Providing art instruction to high school students

2005
Art Internship, Jeff Hangst Studio, Painting Assistant