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Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana,1996-2000.

The School of Art and Art History, The University of Iowa 2007-2010.

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The Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana, 2011-2012.

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Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.

Brian Eno, A Year with Swollen Appendices

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Entropy (arrow of time); detail, 2012.

seeking purpose and beauty within natural conditions of disorder

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Assemblage 32; detail, 2011.

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Assemblages 61 & 52, dimensions various (approximately 20-24” height each), ceramic, luster, rubber, 2014 & 2013.

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Various source material, Wikimedia Commons.

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Dirge; detail, 2012.

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Coral reef nursery, Key Largo, FL.

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Assemblage 43, 20x28x32", ceramic, glaze, luster, multiple firings, 2012.

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The University of Iowa Fine Arts Campus, June, 2008.

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Hierarchical vs. Organic Design Strategies

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Functional work, 2007.

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Flood cleanup, University of Iowa arts campus and surrounding area, 2008.

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Work in progress, Kansas State University, 2015.

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Assemblage 44, encased ceramic, casting slip, glaze, gold luster, multiple firings, 2011.Assemblage 44, 34x12x14", ceramic, glaze, luster, multiple firings.

Assemblage 67: 18x9x12", ceramic, luster, rubber, multiple firings, 2014.

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The Breeders: 20x46x50”, ceramic, glaze, luster, rubber, wood, hardware, 2013.

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Assemblage 63: 8x7x10", ceramic, luster, multiple firings, 2014.

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Getty Central Garden, designed by Robert Irwin.

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Assemblage 64: 12x13x28", ceramic, luster, acrylic, wood, hardware, multiple firings, 2014.

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Before and after shots of Assemblage 33, 7x8x20”, ceramic, glaze, gold luster, rubber, multiple firings.

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Appropriated elements, constructed by fellow Bray residents Ben Krupka and Kenyon Hanson.

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Assemblage 43: 24x14x22", ceramic, wood, plexi-glass, epoxy, rubber, hardware, gold luster, 2012.

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Expansionist View: 14x24x20", ceramic, MDF, hardware, gold luster, 2012.

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Time Check & New Bohemia neighborhoods, Cedar Rapids, IA, April, 2013.

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Flood relics/samples, Cedar Rapids, IA, April, 2013.

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Flood relics/samples, prepping for rubber molds and polystyrene foam casting.

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Assemblage 51: 14x7x19”, ceramic, rubber, luster, 2013.

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Detail, Assemblage 63, ceramic, luster, 2014.

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Assemblage 70 (Detetives lie too): found object, wood, plastic, rubber, hardware, 2014.

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Assemblage 61, ceramic, rubber, luster, polyethylene, found object, 2014.

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