My work plays with the boundary between reality and fantasy to confront existential questions of isolation. My experiments with live video combined with diorama elements draw attention to the mechanics behind moving images, which are normally hidden from view. The works create fictional landscapes, inspired by science fiction, to conjure a sense of estrangement in desolate spaces. Audiences are given the ability to physically play with the dioramas thereby altering the video and gaining a sense of control over feelings of isolation. SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2016 From the Outer Regions, Lillian Davis Hogan Gallery, St. Mary's University, Winona, MN 2015 Protoscapes, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN 2013 Protosystems, Transformer, Washington, DC 2013 Ideal Lunar Landscapes, Rivermont Studio, Lynchburg, VA 2012 Behind the Sky, School of Art, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 2009 Recent Paintings, Rochester Civic Theatre, Rochester, MN GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2015 Ardor, Watkins Gallery, Winona State University, Winona 2013 The Tale of Two Suns, Delicious Spectacle, Columbia Heights, Washington, DC 2013 Momentum, Metropolitan Art Project, Fairfax, VA 2012 Future Daze, Open Space Gallery, Baltimore, MD 2012 Elevator to the Moon: Retro-future Visions of Space, Artisphere, Arlington, VA 2011 Ten Second Film Festival, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN 2011 The Extended Image: A Sense of Place, Mason Hall Alumni Atrium Gallery, Fairfax, VA 2011 Graduate Student Exhibition, School of Art, GMU, Fairfax, VA 2008 Salon 300, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, MN COLLABORATIONS: 2015 Land's End, with Edgar Endress, School of Art, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 2014 Excuse Me For My Razzmatzz, with Edgar Endress and Brooke Marcy, Riverviews Artspace, Lynchburg, VA 2012 Home, with Floating Lab Collective, Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education, Bronx, NY 2012 The Mask of the Shoe Shiner, with ASCHOY Collective, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC 2012 Mapping Why, with Floating Lab Collective, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC 2012 The Shrine of the American Dream, with Edgar Endress, Brooke Marcy, and Marco Moreno Navarro, Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VA 2012 ReMuseum, with Floating Lab Collective, 5x5 Public Art Project, Washington, DC 2011 Floating Utopia: Mobile Art Gallery Designs, with Floating Lab Collective, Artisphere, Arlington, VA TEACHING: 2015 - Adjunct Professor, Drawing and 3-D Design, Winona State University, Winona, MN 2012 - 2013 Adjunct Professor, Drawing, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 2003 - 2009 Art Instructor, Schaeffer Academy, Rochester, MN WORKSHOPS/LECTURES: 2015 Total Arts Day Camp, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN, August 3-14 2015 Artist-in-residence, Rochester Public Library, Rochester, MN, April 11-12 2013 Presentation: The Sublime in the Work of Albert Bierstadt and James Nasmyth, Rivermont Studio, Lynchburg, VA, February 2 2011 Presenter/Panelist, Reading the Body in Contemporary Culture, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, April 23 BIBLIOGRAPHY: 2017 Emma
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