What’s up - news and updates 2024
group exhibition - Houston, Texas
2024 Texas Biennial
Co-juried and co-curated by Erika Mei Chua Holum, Assistant Curator at the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, Ashley Dehoyos Sauder,curator at DiverseWorks in Houston, and Coka Treviño, Founder and Curator of The Projecto in Austin.
Over eighty artists with deep ties to Texas will be featured in thirteen spaces throughout Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast. Connect with this outstanding group of talented creatives who will share their work in over five months of exhibitions and ongoing programs.
The Last Sky: Thermals and Thresholds
Silos at Sawyer Yards
Silos Bay 100 and 200 Galleries, 1502 Sawyer St., Houston, TX
Exhibition Dates: Dec. 14, 2024 - January 25, 2025
Artists showing at Bay 100: Leticia R. Bajuyo, Roslyn Dupré, Veronica Ibargüengoitia, Alie Jackson, Alejandro Macias, Lovie Olivia, Immanuel Oni, Jerónimo Reyes-Retana, Colleen Maynard & Mark Chen.
Artists showing at Bay 200: Roslyn Dupré, Tere García, Mateo Gutierrez, Alejandro Macias, Ryan Montgomery, Patrick Renner
Visit texasbiennial.org to learn more!
group exhibition - Birmingham, Alabama
Board of Directors Exhibition
Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark (Power House)
Reception: Thursday, November 7, 2024
In conjunction with the Mid-South Sculpture Alliance 2024 Conference
My addition to this group exhibition was five player piano roll visual poems from my Montana series.
Guest Speaker - Cork, Ireland via zoom
Monday, November 4, 2024, it was a pleasure to get to present about my work and discuss the trajectory of my studio practice, teaching, and network across my career with Professor James Hayes’ students at the Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork, Ireland.
group exhibition - Chelsea, New York
Exhibition dates: October 26–December 14, 2024
SVA Chelsea Gallery, 601 W 26th St Suite 1502, New York, NY 10001
Project Vortex artists will be gathering all our plastic for an exhibition titled Plasticulture. Curated by Aurora Robson who also founded and directs the collective, this exhibition is at the School of Visual Arts Chelsea Gallery is SVA’s premier exhibition facility. Located in Chelsea on the 15th floor of the landmark Starrett-Lehigh Building
I am thankful to be a part of this unique collaborative. For this exhibition, I created a new CD installation for SVA’s Chelsea Gallery that features an “S” curve shape with a wormhole tunnel connecting two vortices.
Project Vortex is an international collective of artists, designers, and architects actively focusing on the global problem of plastic pollution through our work. Operating at the intersection of art and science, we strive to inspire people to rethink and reinvent plastic debris through innovation, creative stewardship, and education. We are dedicated to improving global understanding of the impacts of plastic consumption + pollution. We support and assist with the development of initiatives to restrict the flow of plastic debris to the oceans.
Visiting Artist - Rochester, New York
Thank you to the faculty of Rochester Institute of Technology for welcoming to their campus to lecture and meet with undergraduate and graduate students students for studio visits. Special thanks to Professor Biz Kronfield, Kate Johnson, Kelly Wilton, and Christina Leung for making my first visit to RIT so amazing.
group exhibition - Alva, Oklahoma
Building Belonging
Exhibition Dates: October 25-November 21, 2024
Dunn Gallery in Alva, Oklahoma
In the Dunn Gallery at the Northwestern Oklahoma State University in Alva, Oklahoma, Building Belonging is a group show featuring Robin Baker, Thomas Cornell, Cassidy Frye, Christyn Overstake, and myself. This show will be traveling around Oklahoma in the future, visiting multiple institutions.
I am honored to be a part of this team and exhibit three CD fragment pieces and four player piano visual poems. Our paths crossed years ago and since then, we have all moved to Oklahoma during the past five years. This exhibition was inspired by conversations about relocating, joining communities, supporting artists, and building belonging. Upcoming venues as this exhibition travels include the Spotlight Gallery at the University of Oklahoma and the Pogue Gallery at East Central University in Ada.
Guest Speaker - Knoxville, Tennessee via zoom
Wednesday, October 23, 2024, I am honored to get to meet Professor Jason Brown’s graduate seminar students to share with them about the installation at Chelsea Gallery and to share stories about my artwork, methodologies, and network with them.
group exhibition - Birmingham, Alabama
The Sloss Gallery at The 600, Birmingham, Alabama
Exhibition Dates: August 9, 2024-July 31, 2025
Opening reception: August 8, 2024
My Summer 2024 Visiting Artist Residency at Sloss Furnaces Foundation concluded with an exhibition reception at The 600 as my sculptures joined artworks by recent and current Sloss Resident Artists. And a couple weeks after my reception, fellow Visiting Artist James Hayes added his sculptures made during the residency to the exhibition too.
Artist Residency - Birmingham, Alabama
Sloss Metal Arts – June 17-August 9, 2024
I am honored to be part of the Summer 2024 Visiting Artist Residency and joining fellow Visiting Artist James Hayes and the Sloss Metal Arts crew June-August, 2024! Sloss Furnaces Foundation hosts three, 8-week Visiting Artists throughout the year, in the Summer (June-Aug) and Fall (Sept-Nov).
group exhibition - Houston, Texas
Hot Bod, Basket Books & Art
Exhibition Dates: July 27-September 1, 2024
Reception: August 17, 2024
Basket Books & Art coordinated and presented 𝐻𝒪𝒯 𝐵𝒪𝒟, a group exhibition of collaborative drawings, facilitated through postal correspondence and featuring the work of well over a hundred artists.
Thank you to Erica Reed Lee for inviting me to participate. And thank you to Durant Thompson for welcoming being invited to contribute to our Texas-Oklahoma-Mississippi exquisite corpse.
group exhibition - Houston, Texas
2024 Luck of the Draw, Diverse Works, Houston, Texas
This drawing/visual poem with ink drawing on player piano roll and sealed in beeswax from Honey's Honey OKC Houston for DiverseWorks’ 2024 Luck of The Draw. This year's theme is Ecosystem and the event is May 17th from 7-10pm at Match Gallery. For more info and to buy tickets to attend and support DiverseWorks, visit link https://diverseworks.org/event/luck-of-the-draw-2024/
"She Weeds Flowers in the Garden," 2024
Player piano roll paper, ink, and beeswax
lecture - Oxford, Mississippi
Thursday, April 11, 2024, I am honored to be traveling to Mississippi to be a visiting artist to present a lecture and teach a workshop. If you are in the area that week, please reach out and join me on the campus of Ole Miss. And then on Friday, April 12th, I am looking forward to joining the University of Mississippi sculpture crew for their Spring Iron Pour.
lecture - Louisville, Kentucky
Thursday, March 21, 2024, I am honored to be traveling to Louisville, Kentucky to be the visiting artist/scholar for the Nora Iasigi Bullitt Memorial lecture. If you are in the area that week, please reach out and join me a the campus of the University of Louisville.
group exhibition - Alva, Oklahoma
Exhibition dates: January 25 – February 29, 2024
Thank you to the faculty of the Department of Fine Arts at Northwestern Oklahoma State University for welcoming our crew to exhibit at NWOSU and to connect with their students and community. This exhibition will feature OU.Sculpture alumni, current graduate students, and faculty.
Special thanks to Assistant Professor of Visual Art at NWOSU Thomas A.D. Cornell for all his work and support of to make this exhibition possible
Visiting Critic Lecture - Snowmass Village, Colorado
I am looking forward to visiting Anderson Ranch February 20th – 23rd, 2024, to lecture and meet with each of the current Artists in Residence.
Lecture: Feb 21, 2024 5:30PM-6:30PM (mountain time zone)
and recorded on Youtube
Anderson Ranch Art Center - An Art Original Since 1966
“It is a center, not a school. We’re different.” — Paul Soldner, Founder of Anderson Ranch Arts Center
In the beginning… It was the vision of prominent American raku ceramist Paul Soldner combined with an incredible land opportunity that paved the way for what Anderson Ranch is today—one of the most respected visual arts programs in the country.
In 1966, just as the ski industry began to blossom, local resort developers envisioned an arts and cultural center for the valley and surrounding community. They called on Soldner, who chose the Anderson Ranch property as the location for that venue, to make it a reality.
To learn more about Anderson Ranch visit: https://www.andersonranch.org
group exhibition - Tulsa, Oklahoma
Exhibition dates: January 25 – February 29, 2024
Thank you to the Tulsa Community College faculty for welcoming our crew to exhibit at TCC and to connect with their students and community.
There will be a closing reception Thursday, February 29th, 5-7pm. (Leap Year Day). If you are in the Tulsa area, please join us and see this exhibition in person.
Special thanks to Cassidy Frye and the TCC faculty for their work and support of this exhibition!
group exhibition - Oxford, Ohio
The World In Which We Live: The Art of Environmental Awareness at the Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum in Oxford, OH.
Exhibition dates: January 30-June 8, 2024
Curated by Jason E. Shaiman, Curator of Exhibitions, Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum
Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum
College of Creative Arts, Miami University
801 S. Patterson Ave.
Oxford, OH 45056
public art - Fort Worth, Texas
2025 installation
Marine Creek Parkway Public Art Project, Fort Worth, Texas
permanent, site-specific, outdoor roundabout sculptural installation
Curated by Iris Bechtol @irisbechtol - Alicia Eggert and I designed proposals for traffic roundabouts for the Fort Worth Public Art program. In addition to research about the city and assessment of the logistics of the roundabouts, we also considered the proposal guidelines that the sculptures at the “two roundabouts should tie into each other, connect without mirroring each other.”
public art exhibition - Johnson City, Tennessee
December 19, 2023 - April 15, 2025
Forces of Nature: Blue Skies, Slinkys, and Hurricanes
Media: steel, blue PEX tubing, hardware, and artificial grass
18in x 63in x 63in
Reminiscent of inner tubes easing down a lazy river or bean bags in a living room, these sculptures provide playful, unusual benches with calm grassy centers at the eye of each storm. Inspired by diagrams of hurricane development and the spring movement of the “wonderful toy” Slinky (as the longest-running jingle in advertising history so memorably describes it), this delightful installation features three circular forms that appear to be large Slinkys connected at the ends into rings and circling perfectly-maintained “lawns” of artificial grass.
outdoor group exhibition - Splendora, Texas
A Gift from the Bower, Splendora Gardens, Splendora, Texas, curated by Xandra Eden, Executive Director at Diverseworks in Houston, Texas; sculptor James Surls; and sculptor Jack Massing
April 22, 2023 - April 22, 2025
My addition to A Gift from the Bower is a sculptural installation titled Swing Set: Share a Share (Duyan: Ibahagi ang Balato)
public art - Russellville, Arkansas
Magnolia, Main Street Russellville, Russellville, Arkansas
This piece is permanent outdoor sculptural bike rack that was collaboratively designed and fabricated by the TLC Art Collective: Tiffany Black, a mural and mosaic artist, Leticia Bajuyo, a sculptor, and Christine Wilson, a landscape architect
installed November 2022
outdoor public art - O’Fallon, Missouri
The Shape of Community Rotating Sculpture Series
July 2022 - July 2024
For this juried, outdoor exhibition, Infinite Green, 2021 outdoor public sculptural installation has been selected to be part of the 2022/2023 The Shape of Community Rotating We at the TLC Art Collective are honored for our sculpture Infinite Green to be one of the City of O'Fallon's Cultural Arts Commission’s 10 large-scale sculptures for 2022/2023.
Infinite Green
materials: artificial turf, salvaged push mower, steel, paint, hardware, and adhesive
dimensions: 45” H x 120” L x 23” D