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ARTIST STATEMENT
My practice concerns the experimental possibilities available in architectural representation. Architects typically use representational types (i.e.: drafting, modeling, mapping, visualization) as a means of describing their design inten- tions. Through a specialized visual code-- some parts formally standardized, others tacitly understood-- architects outline their desires graphically, and these images are in turn built into reality. As such, representation in architecture is often part of a linear chain of events, located at or near the start of a narrative that begins with the image of an object and ends with its construction.
One of my aims is to reconsider this positioning of representation, so that architectural drawing might be released from the burden of necessarily preceding built work. I believe the architect's drawing- with all of its modes and conventions- offers a rich descriptive language that can be deployed for the making of not just buildings of wood, stone or concrete, but also architectures of memory, emotion, anxiety or resistance. By allowing the drawing to emerge from a desire other than that for building, we allow for the possibility of any number of other outputs, built from a choice of conceptual material that is potentially limitless. In this revised scenario, the drawing can act as an instigator of alternative constructions- imaginary architectures implemented by a longing for anything but building. My practice endeavors to be fully engaged in this drafting of desire, where the liberated drawing is free to describe- in as much detail as possible- the wanting of unbuilt worlds. |
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EDUCATION
2010: M.Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture (GSAPP), Columbia University
2003: MA History of Art (Distinction), SOAS, University of London
2001: BA Architecture, Columbia University
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
TWO HEMISPHERES: Carriage House, the Gabarron Foundation, New York
OPEN DAG Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dale, NO, 2012
FOOL'S JOURNEY. Curious Matter, Jersey City , 2012
23RD NATIONAL DRAWING & PRINT EXHIBITION Gormley Gallery, Notre
Dame of Maryland University, Baltimore , 2012
ERASING BORDERS: 9TH ANN'L EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY INDIAN
ART Crossing Art, Queens, 2012
INTERNATIONAL PRINT BIENNALE Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, UK, 2011
THE BLACK AND WHITE SHOW The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition,
Brooklyn, 2011
DISTANCE curated by Radius Twelve, Grady Alexis Gallery at El Taller Latino
Americano, New York , 2011
SUBSERIES by Baukunst Studio, part of the "Festival of Ideas for the New City",
New York, 2011
ESOTERICA: EMERGING ARTISTS The Buttondown, Glens Falls, NY, 2011
INJUSTICE FOR ALL Upstate Artists Guild, Albany NY, 2011
CUPIDITY Upstate Artists Guild, Albany NY, 2011
GAMES UAG, Albany NY, 2010
BLACK AND WHITE Lapham Gallery, Glens Falls NY, 2010
EYOS Columbia University GSAPP, New York, 2010
AWARDS, WORKSHOPS & RESIDENCIES
SELECTED ARTIST A-I-R Residency, Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dale, Norway,
2012 (March-April)
MERIT FELLOWSHIP Contemporary Artists Center at Woodside Residency
Program, Troy, NY, 2012
SELECTED ARTIST International Print Biennale (organized by Parker Harris and Northern Print)
2011
SELECTED PORTFOLIO the Design Archive of the VanAlen Institute, New York,
2011
INDIVIDUAL ARTIST GRANTEE New York State Council on the Arts, 2011
KINNE FELLOWSHIP for Architectural Research in Mumbai, 2010
PARTICIPANT Workshop on Public Space In The Middle East, Columbia
University Middle East Research Center, Amman, 2009
PARTICIPANT The Creative Thesis: Seminars on Thesis Writing in the Practice-
Related Arts, Slade School of Fine Art, London, 2006
PARTICIPANT Brandalism, Summer Workshop at the Architectural Association,
London 2003
HENRY EVANS FELLOWSHIP Columbia College, 2001Mustafa Faruki
WORK EXPERIENCE
MARKETING DESIGNER WASA/Studio A LLP, New York, 2012 -
DESIGNER Supermass Studio Landscape Design, New York, 2011 - 12
JUNIOR DESIGNER Sayigh Duman Architects, New York, 2011
INTERN DESIGNER Architecture CO, Summer 2011
VISITING CRITIC Mid-term Jury Design Review, Studio Gill & Schmid, Columbia
GSAPP, 2010
TEACHING ASSISTANT CADD / Visual Studies Program, Columbia GSAPP,
2008 - 10
TEACHING ASSISTANT to Mike Jacobs, Introduction to Architecture, Columbia
GSAPP, Summer 2008
DESIGN CONSULTANT Kaehler-Moore Architects, Greenwich CT, 2006 - 07
MUSEUM EDUCATION INTERN The Brooklyn Museum, 2001 - 02
RESEARCH CONSULTANT Art Commission of the City of New York, 2000 - 01 |
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