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Ubiquitous bits tossed in alleys, unearthed on construction sites, and settled into dilapidated homes are the material culture that surround us. Centering these materials and…

A collaboration between Sage Dawson and Meghan Grubb, Stopgap is a site-responsive sandbag shelter for one, printed with silver chain-link and barbed wire fence patterns….

Exhibition text courtesy James McAnally. One North, Topping Out Day engages a complex history of architectural erasure and the undulating developments of the Gateway Arch…

I Dream of a House, a poem by André Lafon originally published in Poèmes Provinciaux, 1908, was published as a book for the zine library…

Exhibition essay courtesy James McAnally: The blue, bordering violet, does not match the color of the morning but the suffrage of the evening. A blue…

Drift Field is a site-responsive work that examines the urban landscape surrounding The Pulitzer Arts Foundation. A constellation of points and signals meander, and like a…

DEMO Project works on paper imagine the moments leading up to, during, and just after the house is torn down. Many of the works envision…

Brick Myth is inspired by Persian pleasure-pavilions: ornate, paneled tents pitched outdoors for entertaining and gathering. This tent utilizes ornamental patterns based on rescued 19th-century…

Little Tavern examines the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. area hamburger restaurants built in a Tudor style that first opened in 1928. The chain was sold…

The National Building Arts Center, a conservatory at the former Sterling Steel Casting Company building in Sauget, Illinois, houses more than 300,000 historic building artifacts…

Not Unlike a Buried City hybridizes architectural and decorative art forms found in the American Midwest, as well as Byzantine, Islamic, Roman, Palestinian, Persian, and…

Dust examines the identity of DEMO Project, a former house-turned-gallery-space, which is slated for demolition. To emphasize the space’s impermanence, and to persuade viewers to…

Emblem poetically focuses on the identity of the Summerville neighborhood of Augusta, Georgia, in which the neighborhood becomes a political structure. The work examines housing…

Ghost is the final project examining the Summerville district in Augusta, Georgia. A collection of mixed media lithographs are based on plants that were picked…

In Memoriam commits to memory houses that have been erased from or are nearly invisible within the landscape, namely through demolition, fire, or abandonment. This…

Whether neglected over years or taken quickly in a fire, ruined spaces, along with their contents, become collections in this series of work: the delicate…