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My series Central Conversations, 14 paper collages mounted on painted wood panels, will be touring ​in this traveling group show COLLECTive Concerns: Collage and Assemblage ​from 2024 - 2026. 

​For this series, I drew from my experience as a graphic designer when choosing and combining the typographic elements. Working only with type I can find in old books and magazines makes each piece feel unique. These pieces started with an intimate notion of something I was trying to work through. Nonetheless, I think of each completed piece as a universal sentiment or narrative anyone can understand even though the works begin on a personal note.

Twelve artists explore collage and assemblage as a coping mechanism, siren call, or cautionary warning for collective concerns that impact culture. Their collections are focused on environmental, emotional, and societal stressors; collective concerns that address climate change, covid, grief, identity, and politics.

Judy Bowman
Elaine Crivelli
Kristy Deetz
Virginia Derryberry
Reni Gower
Craig Hill
Errin Ironside
Sue Johnson
Axelle Kieffer
Edwin Shelton
Alexandra N. Sherman
Michele Stutts

The exhibition and catalog have been made possible in part through the generous support of Wylie Contemporary, Inc. Reni Gower, Director / Curator at Wylie Contemporary Inc.


Venues:

Museum of Arts & Sciences,
Macon, GA;
Nov 8, 2024 – Mar 15, 2025

Mills Station Arts & Culture Center,
Rancho Cordova, CA;
May 8 – 24, 2025

University Art Gallery,
Central Michigan University,
Mount Pleasant, MI;
Oct 10 – Nov 8, 2025

Phillips Museum of Art,
Franklin and Marshall College,
​Lancaster, PA;
Jan 20 – Apr 23, 2026

Gumenick Family Gallery,
Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen,
Glen Allen, VA;
​May 14 – July 12, 2026

Piedmont Art Museum,
Martinsville, VA;
​Aug 28 – Oct 31, 2026