creative pursuits

I am a multi-disciplinary artist based in the Bay Area of California. Uninterested in exhibiting or selling my creations, for years my craft has been centered on the explorative process of manipulating materials and having as many aspects of my life be built, created, co-created, restored, or otherwise hand-manipulated. From aesthetics of prints and paintings, Read More >

Orals

Click here to download a copy of my presentation with script. Thanks for attending and supporting us as we reflect on and celebrate the end of our time as Graduate Fellows in the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation.

Publications and Presentations

“Expanding care through a relationally-oriented conservation practice”, presentation at the American Institute for Conservation & Canadian Association for Conservation of Cultural Property joint annual meeting, Montreal, Canada, 2026 “Assessing and weighing values in contemporary art conservation“, presentation for Eighth Annual Berkeley/Stanford Symposium, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art “Reflections on communicating conservation techniques for commercially-produced Read More >

Reflections on Documenting Reflectivity

This research project investigates documentation practices for Robert Rauschenberg’s metal paintings with reflective or mirror-like surfaces. In these series, Rauschenberg used metal sheets as substrates for paintings, pushing the boundaries of traditional painting through the use of artificially-induced “tarnishes” created with chemical patinating solutions and polyurethane “resists.” The artworks are visually active as their reflective Read More >

Analysis of Copperhead Varnish Coatings

Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Documenting Web-based Art

Taught by Patrícia Falcão, Time-based Media Conservation, Tate, Sarah Haylett (Reshaping the Collectible, Tate, and Chris King, Time-based Media Conservation, Tate, and offered virtually by the American Institute for Conservation for the 2020 Annual Meeting, intended to give participants tools and options for documenting webpages.

Recovering transparency. Repairing scratches and chips on PMMA surfaces

This workshop, taught by Anna Lagana, and offered at Future Talks 019 in Munich, gave
participants the opportunity to practice these treatment options on damaged transparent PMMA samples as well as on face-mounted photographs.

Plastics Identification Tool

I attended the Plastic Identification Tool workshop at Future Talks in Munich in November 2019 to learn more about the application of this interactive, web-based tool that helps identify or characterize plastics.

CLARIAH-OH: Transcribing and Analysing Oral History in Digital Research Environments

Digital archiving practices in the Netherlands have permitted increased access to oral history collections. Oral historians who are utilizing these resources…

Glut Study Day

Robert Rauschenberg created the Glut series (1986-89/1991-94) by manipulating found scrap metal into sculptural reliefs and assemblages. These complex artworks have variable structures with…