Daybreak, powder-coated steel, 2022

Orange Bend, powder-coated steel, 2021

Indirect Means, powder-coated steel, 2018

Lift, powder-coated steel, 2016

Dream Machine: Part 2, powder-coated steel. 2016

Dream Machine, powder-coated steel, 2016

Rib, powder-coated steel, 2015 and updated 2017

Stave, powder-coated steel, 2015 and updated 2017

Blue Bell, painted steel, 2015

100 Foot Necklace, painted steel, 2014, repainted 2016

100 Foot Necklace - painted blue "for Andy" 2016 I created this "necklace" with the intention of installing it in places of personal significance in relation to my growth as an artist. The place which is photographed here is the Leo Jenkins Fine Arts Center, on the campus of East Carolina University, where I first was introduced to jewelry fabrication and metalwork. The necklace had also been installed at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Lyndon Street Artworks in Greensboro and The Center for Visual Artists in Greensboro I painted it blue after my dear mentor and chair of my thesis committee, Andy Dunnill suddenly died the year after I completed my MFA. Andy taught me almost everything I know about sculpture, or rather he gave me the foundation in sculpture from which I have developed and grown. I took for granted the access I had to his knowledge and had assumed I would have years to seek his brutally honest feedback, whenever I needed it. He always thought it should be blue, I agree now that I see it, only I need a better installation shot to prove it. Hand formed and fabricated mild steel, enamel paint.

Scope, oiled steel, 2015

Weatherspoon Art Museum, Thesis Exhibition, May 2015 This work is a series of openly constructed, linear steel forms which in contrast to their material, appear surprisingly delicate, like line drawings in space. This work considers the transitions between the internal and external, specifically related to aspects of memory and the mind: how the internal, that which would be the contained, protected, carried, personal, and the external, the container, protector, carrier, begin to interweave and overlap in time. Outlining bizarre cage-like forms signals the trace of a desire to contain and protect the fragile and fleeting, while also emphasizing the variation among our internal processes of experience and the pliable quality of our imaginations.

Steel Swing, Welded mild steel. 2015 - sold/private collection Weatherspoon Art Museum, Thesis Exhibition, May 2015

Blue Bell, Welded mild steel, paint. 2015 Weatherspoon Art Museum, Thesis Exhibition, May 2015

Scarlet Fin, welded mild steel, paint. 2015 - sold, private collection Weatherspoon Art Museum, Thesis Exhibition, May 2015

Blue Bell, welded steel, paint, 2015 Weatherspoon Art Museum, Thesis Exhibition, May 2015

Blue Bell, welded steel, paint, 2015 Promo Image for News and Record, 2015

100 Foot Necklace, welded steel, painted, gold leaf, 2014 I created this "necklace" with the intention of installing it in places of personal significance in relation to my growth as an artist. The place which is photographed here is the Leo Jenkins Fine Arts Center, on the campus of East Carolina University, where I first was introduced to jewelry fabrication and metalwork. The necklace had also been installed at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Lyndon Street Artworks in Greensboro and The Center for Visual Artists in Greensboro.

Hand formed and fabricated mild steel, enamel, gold leaf.

100 Foot Necklace, welded steel, painted, gold leaf, 2014

Wood and Mixed Materials