Contact/Inquiry
In life, we both extract and are given fragments, made up of things, memories, dreams, and experiences. I am compelled to synthesize these disparate parts to find wholeness again. That said, these passing impressions are often fleeting, as in dreams. I have learned to pay attention to this dissolution, like the way things rust or dissolve into liquid. I discover beauty in this decomposition of material and memory by highlighting the molecular, the fractured, the pulverized or the atomic. This inquiry leads to fascinating discoveries in the simple facets of life. I rediscover awe in these forgotten details, to understand how my psychological and physical environments are fabricated.
I am fascinated with how my urban environment is constructed, and yet I feel distanced from the world I inhabit. It is an overwhelm from the spread of parking lots and fluorescent light filled hallways. They aren't spaces built for us, it seems. To find humanity in this bleak landscape, I look to humor, beauty and awe in my practice. These qualities find humanity in these spaces and conditions, whether they are material, architectural, psychological, or temporal. In that way, I re-energize the corporate carpet.
To make my work I use craft processes like audio production or welding. In these methods, I find satisfaction of discovery through action. A joy in finding form from formlessness. That is where play begins. The playful quality of my work stems from the “yes, and…” ethos of my studies in the craft of Improv theater. With improv, I bridge uncanny connections, to create new networks of thought from seemingly unrelated pieces. It is a temperament that is flexible, relational, and alive. Play is an inclusive ethos. It allows room for humor and awe to share the same space, for a Pepto-Bismol drip to be both comic and strangely profound. It invites us to relax our preconceptions, and learn from new speculations.
When I put all these fragments together—steel, weeds, old melodies, hotel carpet patterns—they become teachers, ghosts, or speculative worlds. They perform: for each other, for an audience, or for no one. They exist in multitudes of time. Some parts grow. Some rust. Some play music. As a whole, they become an accidental archive—a leftover perspective. It is what demands to exist against all odds: lingering, singing, trying to grow.
B. 1990, Denver CO.
Lives and works in Austin, TX.
EDUCATION
2023-2025 MFA Studio Art, Transmedia Area, University of Texas, Austin, TX.
2008-2012 BFA Sculpture, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
PERFORMANCES
2025
Ambient Mass, Group Event, Mass Gallery, Austin, TX.
2024
Austin Studio Tour Kick-Off Party, Video Screening, George Washington Carver Museum, Austin, TX.
Ambient Mass, Group Event, Mass Gallery, Austin TX.
Eclipse, Solo Event (in collaboration with Grayson Fiske) Shedshows, Austin, TX.
2022
Haunted Mill and Monsters Ball, Group Event, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY.
2021
Buena Vista: The Audio Visual Environment, Solo Month Long Pop Up Performance Space (in collaboration with Sean Petell) Columbus Circle Subway Station, New York, NY.
Buena Vista: The Audio Visual Experience, Solo Event (in collaboration with Sean Petell) Folly Tree Arboretum, East Hampton, NY.
2020
Tea and Jam: Part I and II, Solo Online Performance (in collaboration with Wen-You Cai) Special Special, New York, NY.
2019
Concrete Boom Volume 2, Group Event (in collaboration with Sean Petell) Dixon Place, New York, NY.
2018
Labapalooza, Group Event (in collaboration with Sean Petell) St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY.
OKTOBERFEST, Solo Commissioned Performance for Benefit (in collaboration with Sean Petell) Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY.
Sonic Mud, Group Event, BKLYN Clay, Brooklyn, NY.
2017
UCLA Game Art Festival, Group Event, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
OKTOBERFEST, Solo Commissioned Performance for Benefit (in collaboration with Sean Petell) Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY.
Puppet Playlist #23, Group Event (in collaboration with Zoe Aqua) Triskelon Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY.
2015
How To Make Something With Britt Moseley, Solo Event, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY.
2014
The Unseen, Group Event, Phipps Conservatory, Pittsburgh, PA.
Puppet Slam, Group Event, LaMama ETC., New York, NY.
2013
Beaches and Bays Gala, Solo Commissioned Performance for Benefit (in collaboration with Tucker Marder) Nature Conservancy Of Long Island, East Hampton, NY.
Fantastic Fascinations, Group Event, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
Lungfull Poetry Reading Series, Solo Poetry Reading, Zinc Bar, New York, NY.
The Big Stink, Solo Event (in collaboration with Tucker Marder and Nick Fusaro) Marders, East Hampton, NY.
2012
Bad Jokes, Group Show and Event, Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY.
Greenpoint Pre-Apocalyptic Theater Festival, Festival Event, 94 Norman, Brooklyn, NY.
2011
Celebrate Life, Group Event, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
Memories of CMYK, Group Event, Poetry Club Art Space, Brooklyn, NY.
EXHIBITIONS
Group Exhibitions Unless Stated Otherwise
2025
Acceleration Without Arrival, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX.
2024
Waterloo Creek Show, Site-Specific Festival Installation, In collaboration with Legee Lewis Legee, Waterloo Creek Park, Austin, TX.
Ratlet’s Tomorrow Today Show Collection (curated by Ratlet T. Pesquinche), How to Get to Make Believe, Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh PA
2023
Cohort, Good Dad Studios, Austin, TX.
2022
The Human Form, Box Factory Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Perfectly Vague, SIP Studios, Jersey City, NJ.
2020
Artist’s Tools, Special Special, New York, NY.
2019
Earthen, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY.
Noodles and Sunset, Solo Exhibition, TSI Snodgrass Gallery, Alfred, NY.
Summer Soup, Three Four Three Four, Brooklyn, NY.
Yonkers Art Weekend, YAW, Yonkers, NY.
2018
In House, Jane Harstook Gallery, New York, NY.
Flat Art, Hudson Park Library, New York, NY.
2017
Those Who Make, Jane Harstook Gallery, New York, NY.
2016
Made In Clay, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY.
Will You, Dekalb Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2015
Out West, Solo Exhibition, Three Four Three Four, Brooklyn, NY.
2014
Artist as Provocateur (in collaboration with Nick Fusaro), Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY.
All Good Children Go To Heaven, Three Four Three Four, Brooklyn, NY.
2013
Drawings by the People, Dekalb Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Amalgamations, Three Four Three Four, Brooklyn, NY.
Melange, Fitness, Ridgewood, NY.
2012
Bad Jokes, Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY.
BYO, The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
1(888)659-2204, Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2011
Six Hours Ago, Etalage Derde Wal, Amsterdam, NL.
Little In Common, Poetry Club Art Space, Brooklyn, NY.
Meattopia, Festival, Pier 9, Brooklyn, NY.
2010
Pratt Painting, Fishbowl Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
AWE, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY.
2008
DPS, Spark Gallery, Denver, CO.
RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2021
City Arts Corps Grant, City Arts Corps, New York, NY.
2020
MAAF Completion Support Grant, Wavefarm, Acra, NY.
2019
Electronic Media and Film Residency, Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University, Alfred, NY.
2017-2018
Puppet Lab, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY.
ONLINE PROJECTS
2021
Afternoon Tea And Jam, (in collaboration with Wen-You Cai) Hosted by Montez Press Radio
2020
Live: At the Cry Baby Lounge
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgVzhAXkj9a4p4X8jNvOvlg
2015-2020
Poppa Squash (in collaboration with Sean Petell)
2015-2017 Hosted by WPIR Pratt Radio
2017-2020 Self Produced
Podcast show released on all streaming platforms
https://soundcloud.com/poppasquash
PUBLICATIONS
Lubetkin, Zoe. “Miniature Writ Large.” East Hampton Star, 2 Sept. 2021, https://www.easthamptonstar.com/arts/202192/miniature-writ-large-buena-vista
Rafferty, Rebecca. “Mortal Coils.” Rochester City Newspaper, 19 Dec. 2019, https://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/rochester/mortal-coils/Content?oid=11151708
Greenwich House Pottery Cookbook II, “Britt Moseley’s Food Trough,” Greenwich House Pottery, pg. 32-33, 2018
Sheepshead Review, “Grid #2” UW-Green Bay, pg. 93, 2019
PRODUCTION CREDITS
2024
Co-Director with Christian Meola, FRAD, Short Film
2021
Projection Designer, Mine, Dir. Shayna Stripe, Dixon Place, New York, NY.
2020
Projection Design, Metamorphoses, Dir. Shayna Stripe, Friends Seminary, New York, NY.
2016
Puppeteer, Six Characters In Search Of An Author, Dir. Theodora Skipitares, Ellen Stewart Theater, LaMama ETC. New York, NY.
2014
Performer, No Need For A Night Light, Dir. Maiko Kikutchi, LaMama ETC., New York, NY.
Fabricator and Performer, Hands Off, Dir. Molly Lowe, Performa ‘14 Festival, Temp Space, New York, NY.
Puppeteer and Puppet Fabricator, The Chairs, Dir. Theodora Skipitares, Ellen Stewart Theater LaMama ETC., Whitney Museum, CUNY Performance Series, New York, NY.
2013
“Technology” (the silver guy), The Murderer, Dir. Tucker Marder and Christian Scheider,
Old Whalers Church, Sag Harbor, NY.
2012
Prop Fabricator, Circus Amok, Dir. Jennifer Miller, Various Parks, New York, NY.
Puppeteer, Prometheus Within, Dir. Theodora Skipitares, LaMama ETC. New York, NY.