ABOUT
Statement
I consider myself a storyteller. I employ shape, color, and spatial relationships as a vehicle to interpret the immense, mundane, and the humorous. The work is a minimal retelling. Simple poetic expressions as an attempt to document, satirize, and search for a deeper understanding of my role within and reactions to the contemporary experience. I often make mistakes.
Lives and works in Phoenix, AZ
I collect bones and rocks.
Represented by
Birds + Richard | Berlin and Albuquerque
Small sculptures and cement vessel pieces may be purchased at the Mojave Fea Yucca Valley
Solo + Two Person Exhibitions
2019 - Philadelphia Fine Art Fair, with Rockelmann & Partner
2018 - Mural Project in downtown Indianapolis, IN - Sponsored by the Indianapolis
Museum of Contemporary Art
2017 - LET ME BE, Rockelmann &, Berlin (with Fred Fleisher)
2017 - if this is as good as it gets, then I guess I am ok with that, Stuart & Co.,
Chicago (with megan Stroech)
2016 - Oh Jeffrey! (sigh, smile wide, heartbreak) VOLTA NYC, Rockelmann &
2013 - Pretending To Have It All Together Truly Is the Greatest Perversion
ROCKELMANN &, Berlin
2012 - A Fake Beach and the Begining of the End Installtion at Jen Bekman
Gallery, New York
2011 - My Savignon Blanc Isn’t Cold Enough and Other Things I Have Yelled For
Attention, Galerie Open by Alexandra Rockelmann, Berlin
2007 - Dracula, a Snake, and Narcissus Walk Into a Bar, Galerie Open, Berlin
2006 - Heart of Gold and Other Expensive Things, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York
Group Exhibitions
2023 - Up in the Air, Birds + Richard, Albuquerque
2022 - PHX ART NOW IV, MCC Art Gallery, Mesa
2021 - Lines, Birds + Richard, Albuquerque
2020 - Reset, Birds + Richard, Albuquerque
2019 - How Did You Explode, Visuals In Conversation, Birds + Richard,
Albuquerque
2019 - Lady's Club, Rockelmann & Partner, Berlin
2019 - Paper Positions, Rockelmann & Partner, Basel
2019 - Queer As I - Curated by Dan Halm, HERE Art Center, New York
2017 - Abstract Communication - Curated by Dan Halm, HERE Art Center, NYC
2016 - The Future Past - Curated by Anne Surak, Central State, Indianapolis
2015 - Finders Keepers, iMOCA (Indiananpolis Museum of Contemporary Art)
2015 - PULSE NYC, ROCKELMANN &
2014 - PULSE Miami Beach, ROCKELMANN &
2013 - Introduction, ROCKELMANN &, Berlin
2013 - ten, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York
2011 - LA Poem at Photo LA with Galerie-Open by Alexendra Rockelmann
2009 - GLAAD Art Auction, New York
8.5 × 11, Jen Bekman, New York
2006 - Meditations in an Emergency, Jen Bekman, New York
Our Greatest Hits, Jen Bekman, New York
Summer Show, Galerie-Open, Berlin
2005 - Fashion Cares, Jeffrey of Atlanta, New York
The Pin Up Show Redux, Jen Bekman, New York
Vendomat Installation project, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
2004 - The Pin Up Show, Jen Bekman, New York
2003 - Lingo, Oni Gallery, Boston | For Paris Hilton, See Gallery, Boston
2002 - Paintings, ESAD, Strasbourg, France
Publications
Tiny Town Times Issue #6, 2019
Collected Writings, 2013
Catalog for Pretending To Have It All Together Truly Is the Greatest Perversion with essays: Control and Chaos Dr. Till FA Richter, 2013 Search in the Opposite Barbara Rudiger, 2013
Curatorial
2019 - How Did You Explode, Visuals In Conversation, Birds + Richard,
Albuquerque
2016 - White Walls, Sarah McKenzie | iMOCA | Indianapolis
2014 - Keeler & Co. Presents | PULSE | NYC
2013 - Ten | Jen Bekman Gallery | NYC
2012 - What's the Point | Jen Bekman Gallery | NYC
Education
BFA. School of the Museum of Fine Arts, 2007