Artist Statement:
I am an interdisciplinary artist creating drawings and collages that emphasize sequence. I am intrigued by the vulnerable correspondences between memory, and relationships that form our identity. Particularly, I am interested in how our past experiences shape our lovers, fears, and passions. My own significant loss of adolescent memories has left me with an obsessive demand to remember, a compulsion to understand and communicate with what I cannot reach. In my work I place an emphasis on touch and texture, seeking to create work the viewer desires to hold gently. In my work I place an emphasis on touch and texture, seeking to create pieces the viewer desires to hold gently and look attentively. My materials are all reappropriated archival ephemera, so that each work carries with it its own provenance alongside mine.
Bio:
Hazel is a queer, cross-pollinating artist looking for a moment’s peace. They live in rural New York with their companion and dog.
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Curriculum Vita
Experience:
September 2025
Exhibitor at the Pittsburgh Art Book Fair | Pittsburgh, PA
May 2025
Exhibitor at the Ithaca Zine and Book Fair | Ithaca, NY
Summer 2024 - Summer 2025
Hosted monthly collage zine workshops (free and open to the public) at The Soil Factory | Ithaca, NY2023
Ultra Organic Woman Orchard (Solo) | Ultra Flat Black Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO2022
Artist Assistant to Lauren Rosenthal McManus | GOCA, Colorado Springs, CO
Tender (Solo) | Cottonwood Center for the Arts, Colorado Springs, CO
The Art Show (Group) | Heller Center for Arts and Humanities, UCCS2021
Who Are You (Group) | Cottonwood Center for the Arts, Colorado Springs, CO
Education:
2019-2022
Bachelor of Science: Anthropology | University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS) | Magna Cum Laude (3.87 GPA), Outstanding Student in Cultural Anthropology2021-2022
Undergraduate Research Grant: Storymaps for Local History | UCCS2020
Museum Practice Internship | Heller Center for the Arts and Humanities, UCCS