Wynn Newhouse Awards

Disability
Trisomy X, Renal Agenesis, Chronic pain from bilateral foot surgery

Statement
What does it feel like in your body when reading a story that tells your story? I ask the viewer to stop and look closer, to examine how the obscured letters and forms challenge the way the story is told.The process of gathering the narratives of people and communities that surround me is on equal ground with the artistic craft of telling these stories. What is the role of the contemporary story collector within today’s society? How does preserving and prioritizing Black and Brown, queer, trans, gender non-conforming, lived experiences, work, activism and opinions, re-imagine our role in the future? Through performance, painting, installation building, printmaking, interdisciplinary processes and cultural work, I strive to re-create and re-tell my personal tales and those of the people that surround me. These process-based mediums reflect the multi-layered complexities of the voices echoed in the work. Through interacting with my art, I invite the viewer to recall and share their own lived narratives, offering power and weight to the creation of a larger dialogue around the telling of B.I.Q.T.P.O.C. stories.

Together (mural) with five handmade paper works 2024 house paint, curved corne 25’ x 13’	We fly for a liberated we, we rooted in flight (part 1) 2024 Vinyl installation 55’x 7’	We fly for a liberated we, we rooted in flight (part 2) 2024 Vinyl installation 11’ x 15’	All our mouths don’t stop fighting for an intifada (mural) 2024 house paint 13’ x 10’ collective survival part one: won’t you celebrate with me (freestanding sculpture), 2022, acrylic paint, flashe, wood, hardware, 48” x 24” x varied dimensions
We love to fly free, we look close to move slow (1 of 3 walls pictured) 2023 house paint, gallery wall 5’x 13’	These-are-our-roles-tools-forms-of-connectivity 2023 house paint, five featured publications ’x 10’	Rituals Here 2022 found cloth, banners, paint, thread, rope, pulleys, a space for gathering, performances, workshops, varied dimensions	Living together and on top of each other (installation view) 2022 house paint, works on paper 13’ x 8’