Upcoming

New Work on View

I currently have work on view at the Portland Art Museum in the Black Artists of Oregon exhibition, curated by Intisar Abioto. You can see my work along with the work of 68 other artists through March 31, 2024. I decided to show Succour, the latest work from my Conduits series. If you have been following that series of work, then you know that each sculpture is temporary and a one of kind experience, so be sure to check it out in real space and time before I disassemble it!


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Upcoming Artist Talk at Yale Union

I am very excited to be doing an artist talk at Yale Union this coming Saturday, August 31st from 5:00-7:00 PM as apart of this year’s home school programming! While the focus of the talk is on performance, I will be touching on common threads that run throughout my work as a whole. Please join me if you can!


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Upcoming Workshop: Performance Through the Lens

This Saturday, August 10th, I will be facilitating at workshop at Open Signal Fest from 12:00-2:00 PM. This workshop is part artist talk, part research presentation and part hands-on performance glitch experimentation! I will be joined by a number of local artists also be facilitating workshops, installing work and performing.

Please join me for a relaxed afternoon immersed in new media works! For more information on my workshop, please visit Performance Through the Lens and for more information on the festival, visit Open Signal Fest. Hope to see you there!


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Overspaced at Open Signal

Overspaced combines videos, projections and performance art to explore abstract representations of the Black body using image layering, analog editing and filters. This show is the culmination of my work at Open Signal as a New Media Fellow this past winter.

Please join me for the opening this coming Wednesday at Open Signal, located at 2766 N.E. MLK. Jr. Blvd from 7:00-9:00 PM. See you there!


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In/Body at "the map is not the territory"

Next Friday, March 15th at 6:00 PM, Sophia Wright Emigh and I will be performing an iteration of “In/Body”, with guest artist Linda K Johnson, within Fernanda D’Agostino’s installation “Borderline” at the Portland Art Museum. Our piece will be followed by a sound performance from Guillermo Galindo. It will be a fun night of movement activation and sound. Come through if you are in the area!