I'm a multi-disciplinary visual artist based in St. Paul.  My practice includes video art, filmmaking, and now collage photography.   

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 For this series, I began with photographs of the roots of toppled trees that line the banks of the Mississippi River near my home.   The roots were washed and eroded by years of rising/falling water exposing rich colors and deep textures.  I start with a single photograph that is generally quite plain all by itself.  But when mirrored and multiplied in intricate patterns through collage, it blossoms into a new and beautiful image.​

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 My practice through the years has been supported with fellowships and grants from the McKnight, Jerome, and Bush Foundations, as well as the NEA, and MSAB. Over the course of my career, I have exhibited at major museums including the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, Hirshhorn Museum, Walker Art Center, Minnesota Museum of American Art, and others. I remain active in the regional arts community, recently mounting solo exhibitions of collage photography at the Pump House Regional Art Center, La Crosse, and Hopkins Center for the Arts. Most recently my work was included in the 2026 Untitled 20 group show at Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis.

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