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RecentPaintings (2025 - Present)
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About/CV
News
RecentPaintings (2025 - Present)
Ceramics (2025 - Present)
Divine Tragedy
Double Entendre
Built By Popular Demand
Design + Constructions
About/CV
Below is a slide listing of (10) creative works and (10) student work. Included is information and short descriptions when pertinent.
Creative Work:
01: Tether, 2026. Screen print and acrylic with grommets on pieceworked fabric, stretched with kite winders. 40” by 67”
02: Vodka Blush, 2026. Screen print, acrylic and marker on piecworked fabric, stretched. 60” by 60”
03: Double Entendre, 2025. Installation view at IA&A at Hillyer in Washington, D.C..
04: Felt, Flocked, and Folded, 2025. UV print to brushed aluminum dibond, custom stickers, and solar panel hinges. 80” by 156” by 26”
05: Sucker , 2025. UV print to brushed aluminum dibond, custom stickers, and solar panel hinges. 80” by 56” by 18”
06: Advocacy: Examinations from Capitals to Memorials, 2025. Laser cut and painted wood, quilted DTF vinyl transfers, sandblasted quartz countertop samples, glass vessels (decorated and cold worked), powder print on glass, sand, rings, crystals, photocopy with graphite, and a sandblasted used iPhone. Variable Dimensions
07: A Red Flag in a Field, 2025. Screen print, acrylic, collage, and varnish on dibond, sewn flag with binder clips. 48” by 40”
08: Built By Popular Demand, 2024. Exhibition view and installation at Temple Contemporary, located at Tyler School of Art + Architecture, Temple University.
09: Built by Popular Demand, 2024. Latex print on vinyl, spray painted die-cut corrugated plastic, garden stakes, glue, zip ties, Home Depot and Lowes buckets, synthetic and dying plants, concrete, colored paint, screen printed foam board, screen printed wood, quilted moving blankets with adhesive vinyl, bleached fabric, blown glass vessels, and lighting systems. 15ft by 10ft by 13ft (tall)
10: Expanding the Network, 2024. Screen print on pink insulation foam, found map, blown glass, flameworked borosilicate glass, saw horses, dead palm frond. 96” by 35” by 29”
Student Work:
01:
Fall 2025: 2D Design + Color Theory (Foundations Level Course)
Assignment: Working Narratively - Designing a Comic
Students were asked to create a 12 page comic, using inspiration from Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics to learn how narrative and gestalt theory are tied together.
Jazzy Smith
Survival of the Fittest
12 page comic, photocopied
5.5” by 8” folded
02:
Fall 2025: 2D Design + Color Theory (Foundations Level Course)
Assignment: Color Theory and Relationality - Designing a Sashiko Embroidery Sample
Students began this project with creating a color star and a 12” by 12” sample of a repeat pattern out of acrylic paint. They then executed their pattern using a sashiko embroidery stitch. During critique, students presented an elevator pitch attempting to “sell” the pattern, bridging formal properties to aesthetic design.
Ashley Rue (Junior)
Acrylic paintings and thread of cloth, sashiko embroidery
12” by 12” for all three
03:
Spring 2026: Techniques in Abstraction (Intermediate Painting+Drawing Course)
Assignment: Destabilization, Material, Queer Abstraction
Students were tasked with making a work of art using an unconventional painting medium. Students were encouraged how their piece falls under a queer or material abstraction lens.
Ashley Rue (Junior)
Mixed media painting on canvas with makeup, foundation, oils, and ground medium
24” by 18”
04:
Spring 2026: 2D Design + Color Theory (Foundations Level Course)
Assignment: Designing an Adjective - Activating the Picture Plane
Students were asked to pull a descriptor word from a jar. Using positive/negative space, gestalt, and dynamic compositions, students then used that work as inspiration to embody the adjective abstractly.
Saga Hollinshead (Freshman)
Word: Squeaky
Marker on bristol
17” by 14”
05:
Spring 2025: 3D Design (Foundation Level Course)
Assignment: Transformation
Students were asked to create to-scale cardboard replicas of a personal object, and were tasked with conceptually skinning the sculpture to transform the object.
Amanda Davis-Forman
10” by 4” by 1.5”
Cardboard, glue, office tacs
06:
Spring 2025: 2D Design + Color Theory (Foundations Level Course)
Assignment: Line and Value Scale
Students were asked to create a drawing from a photograph, using a value scale they created from straight lines and cut newspaper.
Aspen Knight (freshman)
12” by 18”
Markers and newspaper on bristol
07:
Fall 2024: Digital Basics (Foundation Level Course)
Assignment: Putting It All Together - Creating a Zine
Students were asked to create a 24 page zine on a topic of their choosing, considering how self-publishing could communicate their ideas.
Khamari Guy (Sophomore)
24 page digital zine
8” by 5” per page
08:
Fall 2024: Digital Basics (Foundation Level Course)
Assignment: Cultivating a Collection - Button Maker Project
Students were asked to create a series of (6) buttons using skills in Adobe Illustrator to design them. Students were asked to find a substrate to pin them onto it to develop deeper meaning.
Bryana Boone (Freshman)
(6) 2.25” Round buttons, artist tote bag
Variable dimmensions
09:
Fall 2023: Survey of Screen Printing and Lithography (Intermediate Level Course)
Assignment: Working Dense (final project)
Students were asked to create a print incorporating 6 layers for their final. The piece had to be inspired by an item in the university special collections.
Zoe Ardush (Junior)
What do you see?
14” by 18”
Screen print - 6 layer
10:
Fall 2023: Survey of Screen Printing and Lithography (Intermediate Level Course)
Assignment: Thinking in Sequence
Students were asked to create a foldable book structure that was printed, inspired by publications from Pegacorn Press, Press Press, and the Charles Library Special Collection
Sulley Clark Fucanan (Sophomore)
Alone Together
8” by 10” unfolded, 2.75” by 4.25” closed
Screen printed artist book