Latent Landscape
I set a task to take a new look at south Louisiana landscape. The spaces most powerful were leftover, abandoned and forbidden industrial places, including an old lock, stretches of the levee along the Mississippi River, highway underpasses and chemical, energy and sugar cane processing plants. Working from observational sketches and using local materials such as river mud and plant fibers for papermaking, I made prints on handmade paper, books, and video that bring this latent landscape into view. Images and surfaces become primitive, disorienting, psychological, dark and changing landscapes.
Exhibited at:
Glassell Gallery, Baton Rouge LA
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial, Juried by Jim Dine, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
Louisiana State Museum, Baton Rouge, LA
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Estampa International Print Fair, Madrid, Spain
Pounds of Pressure: Contemporary Prints in Large Format, Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge, LA