I’m honored to be a part of the exhibition 20/20 Hindsight = 40 Years, opening at SPACES in Cleveland, Ohio on Friday, April 20th and on view through June 15th, 2018. Celebrating 40 years of exploration and experimentation at SPACES, the show includes work by 17 artists curated by SPACES Executive Director Christina Vassallo and former Executive Directors: founder James Rosenberger, Susan Channing, and Christopher Lynn. Each curator selected a group of artists who have defined their time at the helm of SPACES. I’ve had an ongoing relationship with SPACES, where I served as Exhibition and PR Coordinator for four years and undertook my first curatorial project before leaving for grad school. Years later I was invited to return as an artist-in-residence through the SPACES World Artist Program, where I developed a body of work focusing on the complexities of fertility and identity. I'm well aware of the range of remarkable artists SPACES has fostered over the past four decades, so it means a whole lot to be included among this stellar lineup, honoring one of this country's longest-running artist-run art spaces.
My new installation for SPACES, CoAdaptation Field Station, is a wall drawing that extends into a research site stocked with books, projected video, and a microscope with specially prepared slides. The space sits between lived realities and imagined futures, suggesting intersecting points that link collective activism, adventure play, interspecies care, and speculative fiction as tools to build resilience and community in a rapidly changing world.