Selected Solo Exhibitions 2006 Me and My Lover Make Love on Wednesdays, Multi-Screen Video: A Cinematic Performance. The Institute for Research In African-American Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY. 2006 It’s About Small Things, Cinematic Multi Screen Video Installation and Performance. Department of Anthropology: Black Feminist Theory, SUNY Purchase College, Purchase, NY. 2006 Bling, Ding, Splash. Digital Painting and Print Installations. Ty Stokes Gallery, Atlanta, GA. 2005 It’s About Small Things, Cinematic Multi Screen Video Installation and Performance. Wallace Bacon Theater, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. 2005 Red Light, Green Light, Cinematic Video Installation. Holmes Hall, Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS. 2004 Me and My Lover Make Love On Wednesdays, Multi Media Installation. Dillard University, New Orleans, LA. 2003 Brown From the Water: Seven Women From the Blue. La Huerta, Portobelo, Panama. 2002 Keep Out, Performance, Tougaloo Summer Art Colony. Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS.
Selected Group Exhibitions 2006 What Going Down, Video Installation. Creative Arts Guild, Dalton, GA. 2006 Water Rites. Swain Studio Six, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. 2005 The Girls, Video Installation. Ferias de Portobelo, Portobelo, Panama. 2005 Not By Art Alone, Installation. Corridor Gallery, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA. 2005 Gallery Artists. Ty Stokes Gallery, Atlanta, GA. 2005 Twin Sister--digital prints and Red Light Green Light--digital video. Afrogeeks, Global Blackness and the Digital Public Sphere: Exploring Issues Related to Race and Technology, University of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA. 2005 All of Us: Accessing Multiple Identities in New Media. Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. 2003 Thesis Exhibition for Masters of Fine Art. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. 2002 Step Into the Realm: African-American Literature and Literacy. Pennsylvania State University Library, University Park, PA. 2001 Just Beyond the Tip of Tongue: A Literary and Extra Literary Exhibit on Richard Wright. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 2001 Mandrake Roots. The Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. 1999 A New Day Begun, African-American Artist Entering the Millennium. Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum, Houston, TX. 1999 Seven Women of Tougaloo. Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS. 1999 Art of the Diaspora. Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami, FL. 1999 Interaction 14. Common Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. 1999 New Artists Senior Exhibit. Art Space, Richmond, VA.
Nominations 2005 Lewis T. Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award, New York, NY. 2005 Rockefeller Ford New Media Fellowship Grant. 2003 Yale University Finalist for Terra Foundation, Giverny Summer Residency Program, Giverny, France. 2002 Yale University Finalist for Glouster Scholarship Program for Painters.
Grants, Fellowships 2005 Spelman College Summer Art Colony, Summer Arts Fellowship 2005 National Women’s Studies Association Travel Grant 2003 Yale University Barry Cohen Scholarship, for outstanding work by a student living in New York 2002 Spelman College Summer Art Colony, Summer Arts Fellowship 1996 Shall We Dance, Juried show, Grand prize in Photography and Poetry
Publications/Visual Art and Poetry 2005 The Birds -- The Performance, cover art (The SAGE Handbook of Performance Studies), edited by D. Soyini Madison/Juith Hamera, 2006 SAGE publications 2005 White Tree, cover art (Critical Ethnography: Method, Ethics and Performance) by D.Sonyini Madison, Sage Publications 2005 2003 The Color Yellow -- Poem, (Ante) Magazine, Yale University press 2002 Pilot Wants Her Wings -- Painting, Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art, Editors Tony Medina, Samiya Bashire, Third World Press 2002 1999 Souls on Fire -- Painting and poetry, Editor Howard Rambsey, Tougaloo College Press 1999
Design and Artistic Consultant 2005 Being Billie: The Reflections and Life of Billie Holiday. Artistic Consultant, I Write Productions, New York, New York 2004 Acoustic Chocolate -- Set Design, the Musical, Malik Yorba National Theater Company 2004 Sour Thunder, Set Design, Yale University Cabaret—New Haven, CT 2003 NO, The Rape Documentary, Print Design, Afrolez Productions, Philadelphia, PA 2003 Stains Family Foundation, Photo Illustration for Public Advertisement, Chicago, IL
Videography 2005 Water Rites. Swain Studio Six, North Carolina University, Chapel Hill, NC 2005 Conversations with Black Arts Movement Poets. Sisters Chapel, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA
Education 2003 MFA Painting/Printmaking. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 2001 BFA Painting/Printmaking. Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 1996 BA Sociology/Social Work. Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, Mississippi
Statement
"My work in installation, video and painting are narratives that demonstrate the relationship between industry and organism. I create playful, crude and, delicate scenarios of cause and effects. These mini-narratives are my own theories that point to rigid forms of science and the material world. Using images of high power engines, oil drilling, water access and the “bling theory”, I create an equation in which they are densely connected. Cars become flowers, oil purifies water and precious stones become particles. Whimsical and awkward the recurring characters morph in a distorted spectacle of, natural recourses, industry and science.
I use mediums such as animation, painting, video, drawing and digital printing to create my work. I choose medium based on there systemic or symbolic relationship to the image. When representing ideas of fauna I use traditional medium such as pigment, graphite, metal or canvas and combine a graphic style of painting with a naturalistic style. In complement when exhibiting signs of mechanical industry, digital media is used such as digital audio-visual, LCD screens, and projectors.
Between the paradox of consumption and evolution I use a pluralistic approach to visual form. This approach is a literal practice of connecting seemingly disparate forms to democratize their usefulness in a contemporary global analysis of art. And that access to natural resources and electronic industry should not be signs of natural privilege but of societal necessity. The work is an interpretation of these relationships."
