about
My drawings are made with simple materials (pencils, pens and markers on paper) and investigate how we live and interact as a society. In all of my drawings, I draw upon a lexicon of imagery that I have been developing over the past years. They usually have elements of organic growth in them such as the woven structures that are regularly featured in my work.
The works are imbued with lively human interaction and with environments that are suggestive of an event or place, yet these are left as starting points, fragmented moments in an unending narrative.
education:
2004 MFA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1995 Post Graduate Education, Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague, The Netherlands
1994 BFA, Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague, The Netherlands
exhibitions:
2024
Moving Boxes, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, TX
Biophilia, ISA Art Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
2023
This is a Group Show, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, TX
Every Shelter Art Fundraiser, Houston, TX
Sua Kuasa Matra, ISA Art Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
2022
The Inside of Envelopes, Art League Houston, Houston, TX
Personal Space, Public Art Commission, Rice Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, TX
Currents Festival 2022: Circuits, Currents New Media, Santa Fe, NM
Extremely Shorts Film Festival, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
2021
Here The River Runs Both Ways, CAM Perennial Exhibition, San Antonio, TX
The BIG Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
Lawndale Lending Library, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
Red Dot Art Spree 2021, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX
2020
Coming Alive for a Few Seconds, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, TX
House of Cards, OGE Group, The Discovery Green Conservancy, Houston, TX
Cover Art, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX
Art on the Avenue, Winter Street, Houston, TX
Red Dot Art Spree, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX
2019
If I could, I would cover everything with my drawings, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX
Lawndale Lending Library, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
Luck of the Draw, Diverse Works, Houston, TX
Red Dot Art Spree 2019, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX
Alternate Pathways, The Union, Houston, TX
2018
The BIG Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
Peeking Inside! Sharing Space? The Space Within
BOX 13 ArtSpace, Houston, TX
Come Together: A Collaborative Exhibition, Sawyer Yards, Houston, TX
OVERLAP, art@home, Native Citizen, Houston, TX
2017
Connecting the Silos, An Artist INC-Houston Showcase, Houston, TX
Art on the Avenue, Winter Street, Houston, TX
AMoA Biennial 600: ARCHITECTURE, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX
Drawn To The Inside, Tanks Space, 1824 Spring Street, Houston, TX
ONSET, Forum 6, 1824 Spring Street, Houston, TX
2016
The BIG Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
2015
SITE Houston 2015, SITE Gallery Houston, The Silos at Sawyer Yards, Houston, TX
Luck of the Draw, Diverse Works, Houston, TX
2014
Apocryphal Times, Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, NY
The Intuitionists, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
100th Feature A5 & Fred Lives Here, Affordable Art Fair, Singapore
Luck of the Draw, Diverse Works, Houston, TX
2013
Cliftons Art Prize 2013, Finexis Building, Singapore
2012
Changing Rooms, DAiS at Galeri Utama, Singapore
Chairity 2012, Red Dot Design Museum, Singapore
Redress, ION Art Gallery, Singapore
Hollandsche Nieuwe, DAiS at Artistry, Singapore
2011
Benefit v.11, Inliquid Art + Design, Philadelphia, PA
2010
Swamp Short Films, Fotofest 2010 Biennial, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
2009
New Drawings, CTRL Gallery, Houston, TX
2008
Outpost, CTRL Gallery, Houston, TX
Area Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX
2007
Aqua Art Miami 07, CTRL Gallery, Miami, FL
Pushing the Envelope, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX
Year_07 Art Projects, CTRL Gallery, London, England
Animated Drawings, CTRL Gallery, Houston, TX
Five x Seven on the road, Arthouse and Glasstire, Austin, TX
Carbon14 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Second Impressions, Tower Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Primed, Washington Project for the Arts\Corcoran, Washington, DC
2006
Affair at the Jupiter Hotel, Romo Gallery, Portland, OR
Deja Vu, Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Immersion, Ice Box Project Space, Philadelphia, PA
2005
Exhibit1, Inliquid at the Painted Bride Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Cheek, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Area, Union Gallery University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Where I'm Calling From, The Vacuum, Philadelphia, PA
2004
Naked, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME
The Green Exhibition, Esther M. Klein Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
International show, Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC
Freeform, Media Bureau Networks, Philadelphia, PA
Thesis Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2003
Night of 1000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York, NY
Works on Paper, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
Zomer expositie, Ernst & Young, The Hague, The Netherlands
2002
MFA Exhibition, 1301 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2001
International Voices, Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL
2000
2nd Annual Juried Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hyde Park Fine Arts, Tampa, FL
1999
Zuid Hollandse grafiek expositie, Grote kerk, The Hague, The Netherlands
1998
Gallery at 211, Ossining, NY
Gallery INKT, The Hague, The Netherlands
Haagse Salon, City Hall, The Hague, The Netherlands
1997
Arti et Industriae, The Hague, The Netherlands
Gallery "per adres", Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1996
Sidac Studio, Leiden, The Netherlands
1995
Mecenas Art Consultancy, Leiden, The Netherlands
1994
Ruimte, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Hague, The Netherlands
Debute II, Pulchri Studio, The Hague, The Netherlands
awards:
2013 Finalist Cliftons Art Prize, Singapore
2010 Finalist Hunting Art Prize, Houston, TX
2007 Finalist Hunting Art Prize, Houston, TX
2004 The Fellowship Trust Prizes, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Juror Award, Works on Paper, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
2003 Dedalus Foundation Nominee, New York, NY
2002 Scholarship Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1999 Recognition Award, Stroom, The Hague, The Netherlands
publications:
Studio Visit volume thirty-five, The Open Studio Press, 2016
Drawing Papers 116: The Intuitionists, 2014, The Drawing Center
Oxford American #78, Tree Faces
Inliquid Art + Design, 2011 Calendar
New American Paintings, volume 84 2009
New American Paintings, volume 78 2008
New American Paintings, volume 66 2006
Inliquid.com, 2005 Calendar
The Artblog, 2004 - 2009
New American Paintings, volume 51 2004
Graduate Journal of Contemporary Art Criticism, issues 1 - 4 2002
Ernst & Young, National Insurance Conference
BK informatie, nr 6 9/1999
Elegance Magazine, 1/1996
affiliations:
The Irvin Sandler Artist File Online Registry, Artist Space, New York, NY
The Drawing Center, Viewing Program, New York, NY
Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
collections:
Lester Marks, Houston, TX
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands Embassy in Singapore, Singapore
Wellington Management, Boston, MA
Ernst & Young, The Hague, The Netherlands
VSB, The Hague, The Netherlands
Fortis, The Netherlands