Pillar II Print

b. 1974 in Los Angeles County, California. American artist. MFA candidate at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. BFA in Studio Art, Printmaking from the University of New Mexico. 20+ years of visual arts experience, primary emphasis printmaking, mixed media, digital new media, Chinese brush painting. Most interested in information theory, the emergence of matter and its relations to philosophy and physics, landscape as conceptual terrain. Ren Adams Artist Statement (2013) We live in an age of information"”a socio-cultural climate that straddles the material and immaterial, our daily interactions taking place across physical and theoretical environments. Space and time collapse in the face of this digitally-driven landscape, redefined by delivery and access. As we engage this data cascade, theorist Henry Jenkins claims "[we] construct our own personal mythology from bits and fragments of information extracted from the media flow... transformed into resources through which we make sense of our everyday lives." This pronounced hypertextuality allows for connectivity, remix and recombination previously inconceivable in visual art (and culture at large). My primary body of work investigates the nature of emergence in the data cascade"”addressing the way being materializes from non-being, matter from the void of non-matter, in relation to time-relativity and fluid perspective. Extending into the hypertext of time and space, I use visual vocabulary to address information as matter, the interconnectivity of networks (biological, social, spatial) and the deep virtual space where it all takes shape. Synthesizing ideas found in physics, information theory, Eastern philosophy, archaeology, digital culture, mass media and linguistics, I embrace the interdisciplinary nature of mixed media, layering printmaking techniques with drawing, painting and digital processing. These layers address convergence, the originating space where substance takes root, generating a virtual archaeological dig where viewers uncover artifacts, moments and mysterious terrain. The resulting alchemy of image integrates micro and macro components, revealing transitory connections while expressing multiple points in time simultaneously. There are endless networks within networks"”the systems of matter, information and social interaction spiraling, remixing, inviting deep exploration.