Artist Statement:
Inventory of the In-Between turns its gaze to the liminal zones close to home. These are the spaces and objects that exist in suspension: not quite past, not yet future; not fully inside nor entirely outside; not alive in the way they once were, yet not quite discarded.
I photograph the thin places where memory, land, and body overlap. The corrugated plastic of the greenhouse becomes a translucent skin, a membrane that both protects and distorts. The S-hook latch holds the in-between stubbornly in place. Inside that fragile architecture, glass vessels hang like relics or wind chimes of memory, swaying gently in the liminal air between utility and ornament, between the living greenhouse and the wooden fence line that marks the edge of the yard.
These are the places where time folds over itself, not in dramatic leaps or clean breaks, but in quiet, stubborn overlaps. My camera finds the creases in the calendar: last year’s dried canes still tangled with this spring’s tentative green shoots; the curb strip where red spray-paint marks sit beside a fire hydrant that has stood sentinel through countless winters; the greenhouse panels that diffuse light in the same freckled pattern I once traced on skin.
The thought of loss keeps pulling me back to these same patches of ground, season after season. It is not a loud grief but a persistent, low hum, the dread of the eventual disappearance of ordinary moments. The suburban street is neither wilderness nor cultivated lawn; it is the regulated margin where city maintenance ends and private memory begins.
This work is hedge work. I tend the thin places by returning, by cataloging, by re-tracing steps until the boundary feels porous enough to slip through. I work with the memory of place the way I work with the memory of my paternal grandmother, my childhood dwellings, and my failed relationships—through small, stubborn persistence.and certain future.
Resume:
Education:
M.F.A 2000 Photography The Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI.
B.F.A 1998 Media Studies The Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH.
Professional Experience:
2013 Owner/ Photographer, Brilliant Pixel Imaging LLC, Columbus, OH.
2009-2012 Lecturer, Photography, The Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH.
2003 June 2008 Assistant Professor of Art, Ohio University, Athens, OH.
2002-2003 Lecturer, Photography, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL.
2002-2003 Lecturer, Photography. Webster University, St. Louis, MO.
2001-2002 Lecturer, Photography, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
2002 Lecturer, Art History, St. Charles Community College, St. Charles, MO
Grants/awards:
2007 Creative Activity Support, OU, College of Fine Arts, Support for exhibition This will be a Long Lonely Year.
2007 Creative Research Award, OU, College of Fine Arts, Support for exhibition This will be a Long Lonely Year.
2005 Living Arts Tulsa, Myers Gallery, Funding made possible from the Andy Warhol Foundation Grant (awarded to Living Arts- Spring 2004, see: http://www.warholfoundation.org/grants/FY2005S.htm).
2005 Aesthetic Technology Lab, OU, Support for Development of Website, jodiboatman.com.
2005 Creative Activity Support, OU, College of Fine Arts, Support for exhibition I Noticed Your Limp as You Got Up to Leave the Kitchen.
2004 Creative Activity Support, OU, College of Fine Arts, Support for exhibition at Links for the International Promotion of the Arts.
Exhibitions:
Solo:
2011 Even On A Clear Day, I Still Cannot Find You, Artcite Gallery, Windsor, ON. Canada.
2006 Still Very Small and Dirty, Living Arts of Tulsa- Myers Gallery, Tulsa, OK.
Two Person:
2008 This Will be a Long Lonely Year, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR.
2008 Even On A Clear Day, I Still Cannot Find You, Roy G Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH.
2005 I Noticed Your Limp as You Got Up to Leave the Kitchen, Newspace Center of Photography, Portland, OR.
Group:
2011 The Fluid Terrain : Perception and the Photographic Image, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH. Curator: Margo Ann Crunchfield, Senior Curator MOCA.
2010 Deep Space: Ohio Photographers, The Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH. Curator: Marcella Hackbardt.
2008 ImageOhio 8, The Shot Tower Gallery, Columbus, OH. Curator: Lori Nix.
2006 Inside the Artist Studio, Mahan Gallery, Columbus, OH.
2005 Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, Los Angeles, CA.
2005 VOXENNIAL, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. Jurors: Elyse Gonzales, Assistant Curator Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania and Virgil Marti, Artist, represented by Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York.
2004 Annual Fall Juried Exhibition: Part One, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH. Juror: Elizabeth Thomas, A ssistant Curator, Carnegie Museum of Art.
2004 Summer Summit #8, Links for International Promotion of the Arts, Chicago, IL.
2003 Exposure 5: Trans/locations, North Gallery, St. Louis, Mo. Curators: Roseanne Weiss educational director of the Contemporary Museum of St. Louis and Terry Suhre director of 210 gallery in St. Louis.
2002 Embracing The Elusive, Art Coop, St. Louis, MO.
2002 305.21 Miles: The Distance Between Us, Dupreau Gallery, Chicago, IL. Curators: Donald Schmaltz director of Dupreau Gallery and Michael Piazza.
2002 Critical Mass, Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts, St. Louis, MO. Curators: Jennifer Strayer of St. Louis Arts in Transit, and Shannon Fitzgerald of Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis.
2001 The Mighty Midwest Biennial 2001, New Visions Gallery, WI. Curator: Michele Rowe-Shields, Visual Arts Director, Montalvo.
2000 Shutter: 2000, No Name Exhibitions @ The Soap Factory, MN.
1999 Artseen, Artsite, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
1999 The Clarity of Seduction, Network Gallery, Pontiac, MI.
1999 Post-Serial, Form Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI.
Residencies:
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA. November 27th – December 19th, 2006.
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA. November 14th – December 8th, 2005.
Bibliography:
Christopher Yates, “Depth Of Field,” The Columbus Dispatch, Visual Arts, August 8th 2010.
Bill Mayr, “Exhibit encourages cash-and-carry purchases,” Weekender, The Columbus Dispatch, Visual Arts, July 6th 2006, 14.
John Motley, “I Noticed Your Limp as You Got Up to Leave the Kitchen,” Portland Mercury, November 24th- November 30th, 2005. 39.
Vinnie Baggadonuts, “Featured Untapped Talent Artist,” Tastes Like Chicken, October 2001, 10-11.
Aaron Van Dyke, “shutter,” www.artindustry.org 2001
Conferences:
Midwest Society of Photographic Educators, 2005, St. Louis, MO. Lecture: And So On and So on in Much the Same Vein.
Midwest Society of Photographic Educators, 2004, Columbus, OH. Presentation: Graduate Program opportunities, Ohio University.
Visiting Artist Lectures:
2010 Kenyon College
2006 Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL.
University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK. Living Arts Tulsa
Works in the collection of:
Laura and Fred Bidwell, Bidwell Projects, Cleveland, OH.
Katherine Milton, Director of Learning and Innovation. Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN.
Strategic Mortgage Co., Columbus, OH.
Bandar AL-Saud, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Sarah Fix, Editor, Corbis, Los Angeles, CA.