March 31, 2025 1-2pm: I'll be leading a paintmaking workshop at Big Ramp during the closing reception for
Air Alone (from my dream) a two-person show featuring the work of Kim Altomare and Melina Auskaiti.
In this drop-by, all-ages workshop, we'll be making paint from pomegranite, tumeric and sumac
modified with rust to create mailable art for the Penpals for Palestine collaboration.
Philly Dye Club is honored to share our natural color experiments for the
'Ecology of Fashion' exhibition at Drexel's Academy of Natural Sciences. The show - up through August 31 - inspires us to rethink our relationships to what we wear and to deeply consider the environmental implications of our choices.
RECENT EVENTS:
We Are All Compost at Big Ramp Gallery ran through April 19, 2025.
I planted two videos and a soil shroud in this group show curated by William Schwaller, featuring "work by by artists seeking symbiopoeisis with the environment, making with its critters and vibrant matter."
'Flickering Shadows: Experiments in Animation' a screening of short videos by international artists working with a wide range of animation techniques, the artists' explore the complexities of our relationship to nature was screened at Cunningham Fall State Park, William Houck Campground Amphitheater on September 28, 2024. I was so happy to premiere my new short animation 'The Moth Thinks Otherwise' at the site that inspired it.
You can see images from the outdoor event here.
nurture/nature curated by Lauren Rosenthal McManus was on-view through September 28, 2024 at
Raritan Valley Community College Gallery. The
Exhibition Catalog is now available on-line.
'Cities Into Dust' curated by Talia Greene was on view through October 10, 2024 at
The Study
where I was thrilled to exhibit alongside Amze Emmons, Erik Ruin and Talia Greene.
Stay tuned for the next iteration of this exhibition - coming December 2025
Pillars of Motionless Time was on view at Chimaera Gallery through June 29, 2024.
A solo exhibition featuring still paintings and animated videos that explore overlapping ideas of screening– as scientific filter, visual device and temporal recording through natural color and slow observation.
My short video 'Refuge: A Soil Portrait' along with new textile work–was included in the pop-up exhibition,
Dialoghi del Suolo at Il Conventin fuori le Mura, Firenze, Italy: May 21 - 23, 2024 and screened at the100th IUSS Soil Congress in Florence, in the session Animating Soil Health: Breathing Life into Soil, Campaigning through Stopmotion Film with Jo Pearl. The next iteration is planned for Brussels in the Fall 2024.
I've recently started writing with Artblog - which is a joy- and Past Present Issue No.4 includes my recent interview with Brendan Fernandes. You can order your copy here.
Philly Dye Club recently exhibited in 'A Shared Table' at DVAA as a part of Everyday Futures Fest.
I enjoyed my time at Winterthur Museum on a maker-creator fellowship - and as the resident artist at Cunningham Falls State Park You can see a glimpse of the programming and research here - the video is in the works.
Grateful to be included in the publication Earthkeepers Handbook
I'll be showing with ecoartspace this May 2024 for the International Soil Conference in Florence.
