visual art

Artist StatementThe echoes of industry and human presence are inscribed upon the landscape. This body of work explores these traces, along with the ecological and economic value we assign to altered environments. I employ processes that range from direct interaction...

Artist Statement In this photography series, I highlight the architectural remnants in the Switchbacks located near Spokane, Washington. Reclaimed by graffiti artists and moss, these decaying foundations and dams now burst with vibrant color, life, and arcane...

Domesticity gets deified in Monica Carrier’s collection, bringing high and low together to showcase the absurdities and sincerities of daily life. In vivid colors in ink and oil, Carrier depicts such goddesses as Hecate and Persephone, caught as if by candid camera...

PROLOGUE digital image | 2020IN MEDIAS RES digital image | 2020RESOLUTION digital image | 2020 TABLE OF THE TRAGEDIAN  Growing up an only child, I became an observer. I learned to pass time by watching people interact, noticing interesting colors and textures, and by...

NKISI 4000 digital collage | 2020 | 20×28   The Nkisi 4000 piece was inspired by Nkisi (or Nkishi) which refers to either spirits or an object that a spirit inhabits. It is frequently applied to a variety of objects used throughout the Congo Basin in Central...

Black GRRRL Rising: A Multimedia Cultural Archive of Diaspora AL KUBRI // THE BRIDGE 35 mm film | 2017 | 30 x 20 in AL BAIT // HOME 35 mm film | 2018 | 30 x 20 in SUDANESE SIBLINGS 35 mm film | 2018 | 30 x 20 in ELEMENTS: SPIRITUAL FAMILY 35 mm film | 2018 | 30 x 20...

hi pen and ink xerox | 2011 | 8.5 x 11 inches gossip pen and ink xerox | 2011 | 8.5 x 11 inches legs pen and ink xerox | 2009 | 8.5 x 11 inches ghost rainbow pen and ink xerox | 2011 | 11 x 8.5 inches Artist’s Statement  The infusion of Afro Deco into my formal...

Artist Statement Dance of Fire Digital | 2018 | 1000 x 1000 pixels Confession Digital | 2019 | 1000 x 1000 pixels [caption width="761"...

Juxtaposing Realities: Structure, Ruin, & Fluidity Garden of Consciousness: Moment of Rupture  Mixed Media Collage | 2013 | 11×9 inches Transition from a monument to capitalism to underground garden within the same space. Garden of Consciousness: Moment of...

Upton Sinclair’s Oil! 2014 | Typewriter ink on paper | framed: 17 x 25 inches (43.2 x 63.5 cm) | 548 pages typed on an Underwood No. 5 | Doheny Mansion with LAXART, Beverly Hills, CA, October 2014 | Courtesy the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York John...

lost stars oil pastel and colored pencil on paper | 2019 | 20×24 roller coaster eyes  oil pastel and colored pencil on paper | 2019 |  20×24 ocean of u oil pastel and colored pencil on paper | 2019 | 20×24 empty flowers oil pastel and colored pencil on paper | 2019 |...

High Priority To Do (February 2019) 2019 | 12.5×9.5 | stitched USPS tyvek envelope High Priority To Do is a currently growing list of monthly to do lists, by the end of the year there will be 12. The flat rate envelopes are forming a playful narrative about being a...