Research

As an artist and educator, it is extremely important to me to examine my community references, both past and present, and contribute to the politics of cultural identity, social issues, and visual culture. I use my art as a voice to create a dialogue between academic and non-academic communities.

My current artwork consists of mythological hybrid creatures (buffalo, wolf, boar, deer, moose) based on my childhood memories and stories of growing up in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma. I explore notions of good, evil, death, and life cycles. My depictions of beasts, animals, and machines act as a metaphors for human behavior and cycles of violence. My artwork is a response to intrusive behaviour by humans towards nature and other humans. To view samples of my work, visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/hybridpress/ or http://hybridpress.blogspot.com/.

Recent Exhibitions

Expansion Proyecto’ace, International Center for Visual Arts in South America, Políglota Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Solo Exhibition) http://www.proyectoace.com.ar/ (2008)

The 14th International Tallinn Print Triennial Political Poetical, Kumu Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia. Curated by Richard Anderton, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK; Arunas Gelunas, Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts, Lithuania; Anders Härm, Tallinn Art Academy, Estonia; Eha Komissarov, Kumu Art Museum, Estonia; Cecilia Mandrile, artist, Argentina; T eemu Mäki, artist, Finland; Lilijana Stepančič, The International Centre of Graphic Arts, Slovenia. (Group) http://www.triennial.ee/en/28/kumu (2007)

The Falun Triennial 2007-Contemporary Print Art/Falutriennalen (2007)

Derived from the book ‘Printmaking at the Edge’ by Richard Noyce. Anne Seppanen curator, Dalarnas Museum, Falun, Sweden. (Group) http://www.dalarnasmuseum.se/ (2007)

New Prints 2007/Summer–Silkscreen International Print Center New York, Chelsea, New York. Curated by Richard Anderman, collector; Donald Baechler, artist; Venetia Kapernekas, gallerist; Jean-Yves Noblet, master printer; Nadine Orenstein, Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yasha Wallin, Co-Director, Freight + Volume. (Group) http://www.ipcny.org/exhib/exhib_np/edit_np_su07/edit_np_su07.htm (2007)

Diagnosis of a knot, a lump, an Itch and Scratch a collaborative Installation between Jennifer Angus and John Hitchcock. London Print Studio, London, England, UK. (Two Person) http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/G4_past.html (2006)

Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation, Part 2, Contemporary Native North American Art from the Prairie, Plains, Plateau and Pacific Curated by Ellen Taubman and David McFadden for the Museum of Arts & Design, New York, New York (2005). Traveled to The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, Indiana (2006); Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida (2007); Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma (2007); Anchorage Museum of Art History, Anchorage, Alaska (2007); Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota (2007) http://www.madmuseum.org/site/c.drKLI1PIIqE/b.1523199/k.84A6/Changing_Hands_2.htm

Selected Grants, Honors, Awards & Fellowships

Graduate School Research Grant University of Wisconsin-Madison (2007-08)

Graduate School International Travel Grant to attend the Impact International Print Conference in Tallinn, Estonia (2007)

Graduate School Research Grant University of Wisconsin-Madison (2006-07)

Graduate School Research-Service Grant University of Wisconsin-Madison (2005-06)

Graduate School Research Grant University of Wisconsin-Madison (2005-06)

Graduate School Research Grant Shared with Jennifer Angus, School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Project Assistant (2004-05)

Madison CitiArts Grant Shared with Derrick Busich (2004)

Vilas Associate Grant The Graduate School, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2003-05)

Graduate School International Travel Grant to attend the Impact International Print Conference in Cape Town, South Africa (2003)

Distinguished Alumni from the School of Art, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas (2003)

Graduate School Research Grant University of Wisconsin-Madison, Project Assistant (2003-04)

Graduate School Research Grant University of Wisconsin-Madison (2001-02)

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Proyecto’ace, International Center for Visual arts in South America Buenos Aires, Argentina (2008)

Vermont Studios Center Full Fellowship, Johnson, Vermont (2007)

Cultural Collision! U.S. – N.Z. Arts Residency/Workshop at the ‘Te Kura Toi O Buck Nin – Buck Nin School of Arts’ Te Wananga O Aotearoa, Manukau Campus Gadsby Road, Mangere, South Auckland, New Zealand (2005)

Te Mata Gathering of Contemporary Indigenous Visual Artists Residency/Workshop/Exhibition, Toimairangi School of Maori Visual Culture Te Wananga o Aotearoa, Hastings, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand (2005)

The University of Arizona, Tucson Artist in Residency/Workshop, Tucson, Arizona (2004)