BIO:
I investigate landscape, place, environment, and geography, through strata of observation, technology, subjectivity, and my surroundings. I use traditional and digital photographic mediums, GPS, environmental data sets, augmented sampling procedures, clothing design, and classification to investigate our current present state. I received an interdisciplinary M.F.A. from the Maine College of Art, and have been working, living, and observing on Peaks Island three miles off the coast of Portland Maine. Over the last few years I have co-founded The Geographic Observatory and WEAREX [wax] with my partner Jessica George. The Geographic Observatory uses systems of observation, perception, and exploration to form cross discipline perspectives on relationships between community and the landscape. While WEAREX [wax] is a clothing and design project that focuses on the reconfiguration of clothing and design to affect and inform the way in which we move and inhabit. In addition to my collaboration with Jessica George I have worked with the arts collective Spurse and the art non-profit organization the Creative Material Group [CMG]. In an attempt at financial stability and the proliferation of information I hold an adjunct faculty position at Southern Maine Community College, where students engage with photography in a completely digital environment. I am also teaching workshops on photography at the Maine Media Workshops and at Gorham Adult education. In addition to these teachings I have lectured at the Maine Media Workshops, The Maine College of Art, and at Syracuse University’s School of Architecture. At the present I am investigating growth and colonization, through mold specimens inhabiting a basement and the movements, developments, and habits of an island beaver colony.
2009
Interior Arachnid Territory Tracking Kit, Spurse, Experimental Geography, The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Blue Hammer, Creative Material Group, Tricks of The Eye, RISD, Office of Public Engagement, Center for Integrated Technologies.
Interior Arachnid Territory Tracking Kit, Spurse, Experimental Geography, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minnesota.
Small Works, Darkroom Gallery, Manchester, New Hampshire.
2008
Open, Hatch Gallery, Brunswick, Maine.
ITTY/BITTY Invitational, YES Gallery, Warren Rhode Island.
Wearex Factory, Sacred and Profane, Peaks Island, Maine.
First Traces, Center For Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine.
Runway Earth, Roger Williams Botanical Garden, Providence, Rhode Island.
Species, Gem Gallery, Peaks Island, Maine.
Interior Arachnid Territory Tracking Kit, Spurse, Experimental Geography, Richard E. Peeler Art Center , DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana.
Imprint, GEM Gallery, Peaks Island, Maine.
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine.
Sprout, GEM Gallery, Peaks Island, Maine.
Oil, Three Fish Gallery, Portland, Maine.
Spring Thing II, AS220, Providence, Rhode Island.
Treading Lightly, Waterfall Arts Center, Belfast, Maine.
2007
Fall show, GEM Gallery, Peaks Island, Maine.
Free For All, Space Gallery, Portland, Maine.
Annual End of Year Show, Gem Gallery, Peaks Island, Maine.
2006
Annual Polaroid Show, Space Gallery, Portland, Maine.
Extended Views, Edwards Gallery, Holderness, New Hampshire.
2005
BFA Graduate Exhibition, Art Institute of Boston Main Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
Landscape Within Reason, Marran Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Community, Jamaica Plain Art Market, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
PRC Student Exhibition, Photographic Resources Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
2004
PRC Student Exhibition, Photographic Resources Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
2003
Next Generation, The Center For Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine.
PUBLICATIONS
2009
Beloit Poetry Journal, AJB Publishers.
Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism, Nato Thompson, ICi.
2008
Maine College of Art MFA Catalogue, Moth Press.
2007
Oil, The Geographic Observatory, Cole Caswell.
Detritus Views, The Geographic Observatory, C Caswell / J George.
Detritus Objects, The Geographic Observatory, C Caswell / J George.
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
2010
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Collaboration, Boston MA.
Tyler School of Art, Photographic Practices, Philadelphia PA.
University of Southern Maine, Inspection Processes, Portland, ME.
Montclair State University, Graduate Program, NJ Transect, Meadowlands NJ.
2009
University of Maine Orono, Inspection Processes, Orono, ME.
Syracuse University School of Architecture, Visualization, New York, NY.
2008
Maine College of Art, Mapping, Portland, ME.
2007
Rockport College, Alternative Photographic Processes, Rockport, ME.
AWARDS
2008
Albert K. Murray Fellowship, Albert K. Murray Fine Arts Fund.
2007
Albert K. Murray Fellowship, Albert K. Murray Fine Arts Fund.
2006
Maine College of Art Restricted Scholarship.
2005
Art Institute of Boston Merit Scholarship Award.
Rockport College Portfolio Merit Award.
EMPLOYMENT
Adjunct Faculty Member, Southern Maine Community College, 2008 – Present.
Photography Instructor, Gorham Adult Education, Gorham, Maine, 2008 – Present.
Adjunct Faculty Member, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, 2007.
Photography Assistant, Cig Harvey, Boston, Massachusetts, 2005.
Photography Assistant, Carl Walsh Photography, Portland, Maine, 2004-2005.
Curator, Gallery South, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, 2005.
Teaching Assistant, University of Southern Maine, Lewiston, Maine, 2003.
