I am inspired by the built landscape around us and how we interact with it, whether it’s where I live or is a place I have traveled to. Handmade signage, architecture, long standing storefronts and other human made alterations of a place are all intriguing to me. The interaction of these elements and how they make us feel directs the subject matter of my work. Signs offering repair work, storefronts selling everyday products and architecture that shows signs of use and wear all offer an insight into how our world works. I believe these things are worth celebrating, as they are what create the unique fabric of the places that we live.
My work uses quilting and found objects to represent feelings of comfort, tradition and history. Like a handmade quilt, elements of the urban environment offer people a sense of place, belonging and safety. They both have traces of the hand that created them and are unique in their own ways. They can be displayed, passed down, altered, mended or repurposed or discarded. They each represent a part of their community, surroundings and history and offer different meanings for anyone who lives with or around them. My goal is to highlight these elements of the world we inhabit.
Based in San Francisco, CA.
Exhibitions
2024
Felix Art Fair, Charlie James Gallery Booth
Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
2023
OMGWTF, Group Show
Primary, Miami, FL
PACK, Group Show
Good Mother Gallery, Oakland, CA
The de Young Open, Juried Group Show
de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Be Kind Rewind
Bench Gallery at Fayes Coffee, San Francisco, CA
Today Is the Greatest, Group Show
NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA
Working Craft, Group Show
120710 Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Thank You For Shopping, Two person show with Josh Stover
Pacifica Collectives, Tokyo, Japan
All Makes & Models
Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Felix Art Fair, Charlie James Gallery Booth
Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
Pyramid Scheme, group show
Bass and Reiner Gallery, San Francisco, CA
While-U-Wait
Park Life Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2022
Around the Corner, Group show curated by Jeffrey Sincich
Park Life Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Copy & Paste, Group show
Nucleus House Gallery, Portland, OR
Rostro, Group show
Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Free Estimates, Solo show
Nucleus Gallery, Portland, OR
Outside, Solo show
Pacifica Collectives, Tokyo, Japan
2021
OPEN/CLOSED, Solo show
Park Life Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Other Environments, Jeffrey Sincich and Josh Stover
Stephanie Chefas Projects, Portland, OR
2014
Clay? V
Kirkland, Arts Center, Seattle, WA
Within: Without, Red Lodge Clay Center
Red Lodge, MT
2013
On The Surface, Morean Arts Center
St. Petersburg, FL
Friends and Influences
Clay Studio of Missoula, Missoula, MT
2012
Nebraska National Collegiate Juried Art Exhibition
University of Nebraska Lincoln
Cups and Coffee International Juried Cup Show
Seattle, WA
2011
To Go, Mendocino Art Center
Mendocino, CA
2010
A New Decade of Clay: 2010 National Juried Ceramics Show
Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe, CA
Juror Richard Shaw
Education
2012
BFA, Ceramics, University of Florida
Residencies
2016
Pentaculum Week-long residency, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2015
Pentaculum Week-long residency, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2012
Summer Resident, Clay Studio of Missoula, Missoula, MT
Professional
2013 - current
Co-owner and sign painter, J&S Signs, Portland, OR
2014
Assistant to Thaddeus Erdahl, Penland School of Arts and Crafts, Penand, NC
2013
Assistant to Jamie Walker, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
2012
Lecturer, Mixed Media: An Interdisciplinary Look at Ceramics, NCECA Conference, Seattle, WA
2011
Summer Studio Assistant, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
Awards
2012
NCECA Regina Brown Undergraduate Student Fellowship
Carolyn A. Novogrodsky Memorial Award for Artistic Pursuits, University of Florida
Publications
2023
Juxtapoz Magazine, Sewing Signs: An Interview with Jeffrey Sincich as He Threads the Needle
Popeye Magazine, Japan, superrrrrrr ART WALL
2nd Magazine, Japan, The Visual Performer
2022
Los Angeles Times, A captivating group show at Charlie James Gallery looks at the (figurative) masks we wear
2019
Portland Monthly Magazine, This duo Makes Some of Portland's Most Eye-Catching Signs
2013
500 Figures In Clay, Lark Books, title page
2009
Clay Times magazine, vol. 16, issue 88, page 30, A New Decade of Clay