This body of work showed in a tent up in Lake Tahoe next to the UC Davis building. It focuses on regional climate change but more specifically Lake Tahoe. Before viewers came to the tent they sat through an environmental lecture about Lake Tahoe. The lecture starts out talking about water clarity and how it has been changing. The lecture is then followed by a discussion on low oxygen levels and the risks of these low levels. Here is where the new species is introduced to the visitors. The speaker talks about this creature and how amazing its functions are within the lake, and its anatomy in general, but then discloses a very real fear of its potential in the lake. 
Inside the tent there is a water clarity chart on the wood floors to the left. Then there are specimen jars with replicas of the first three Accordion Clams found. There is a small diorama of the environments they are found within, and then along the back facing wall there are scientific illustrations labeling the Accordion Clam anatomy at various stages of life.

This body of work looks at the effects of stress, anxiety, and lack of sleep. It is a documentation of the 713 days that I spent in a Masters Degree program. It shows the accumulation of these days through my use of materials such as teabags, hair, time, and data.

This body of work focuses on the morphological characteristics of a human species due to climate change. The Turn-Over Pulse Theory allows you to look at drastic changes in ecosystems and see how the organisms respond and adapt to these changes. These small humanoid sculptures embody this theory and ask:  what new features would we evolve if we had to adapt physiologically to a changing world? This work also references biomedical research and the introduction of non-human DNA to our systems. How does this new DNA respond within the host and a changing ecological system.

This body of work is focused on regional climate change. Each vessel is made of porcelain and houses one of Nevada/California's endangered species. Each of the vessels is part of a larger shape that creates the open diagram of a higher fungi. This fungi is also endangered and its function is to change unusable nitrogen into usable nitrogen for the plants and animals. With this installation there was a hand printed field guide from the Black Rock Press located at the University of Nevada Reno. Sound domes were also present.

This work begs the question as to what is a body today and subverts the idea that technology is now most of our "human" contact. We have become lost in this technological world and are stuck to screens. We have less and less physical contact as the years move on. This work was in the making just as the "Pussy grabbing" comment came out about Trump. I decided to make this phone have human characteristics. When the phone rings, a female voice is heard. This voice belongs to this phone that is covered in hair, teeth, and skin. She talks about how people have stopped answering her and have been quite rude, ignoring her even as she is calling for help. The phone continues to say that she heard something and thought it would bring some frightening thoughts to mind. The phone plays a looped recording of Trump saying "The American Dream is Dead!" The phone then beeps and records the listeners thoughts.

This installation/performance piece is a mobile cart that I pull along and set up in different locations.This work holds a magnifying glass up to the institution of marriage and the absurdity of stating who can and cannot marry. I dress up as The Bearded Lady and try to get people to play the game. The cart houses over 80 unique fingers of people I have met throughout the making of this piece. I took molds of these fingers and cast them in wax infused plaster. These fingers are then mounted on a board that the players throw golden rings at, in hopes of getting a ring on the finger. Once the player lands a ring around a finger The Bearded Lady marries the two and provides a marriage certificate to the person. The person then gets to take the finger and the certificate home. This work is highly interactive; not only is it a game with many layers, it also is a print cart that people can ink up and pull prints from which also refers to marriage quality.

This piece is located at Saint Mary's Art Retreat and is part of their permanent collection. This piece has a little pack rat with no fur and is quite reminiscent of past shows of my humanoid creatures. This little creature scurries the rooms and corridors of the building collecting small tokens from visiting artists. In its small nest it is surrounded by precious art that it deemed worthy of its hauls. The location of the tiny gallery is hidden and only those brave enough to explore the building will find it. If you do, please leave a small art object with your name on it so the collection can grow.

This body of work was shown in 2013 as an introduction to my art at the University of Nevada, Reno. It focused on portraiture but more specifically the faces of mental illness. I explore the use of color and line. In these portraits I very few lines while still having them be very descriptive.

This is a huge collage mural that was part of the FREE project at Truckee Meadows Community College. In this collage, departments throughout the college created work that was focused on our local watershed. Once the work was collected it was placed on the wall creating a diagram of our local watershed starting from Lake Tahoe and ending at Pyramid Lake. The collage consists of scientific data, statistics, writings, prints, drawings, photos, and graphs. It was a huge college-wide project that will travel all around Nevada. 
My students did pen and ink drawings on vellum that depicted how they interact and enjoy our local bodies of water. They also included local wild life illustrations to their pieces. These clear drawings allowed for layering to occur with other work and to allow the two to interact rather than obscure and cover.