GARAGE PROJECTS
Lubbock, TX / 2025 - 24
@the_garage_projects

​Garage Projects is a DIY creative project space co-founded by TTU PhD students, Rylee Henson and Lauren Peterson. Aimed at building a community of makers and providing an alternative exhibition space, the Garage hosted solo and two-person exhibitions, sound-installations, and a film night from 2024-2025. 

JUN 2025 / 'Altering Earth | Growing Ground' is a two-person multi-media installation consisting of works by Joshua Mokry and Skylar Perez. Drawing from their research in cave restoration and soil systems, respectively, Mokry and Perez collaborate to evoke the liveliness of earthly substances that exists beyond human vision.

MAR 2025 // 'Please Excuse Me, I’m Not Quite Feeling Like Myself' by Nate Gilchrist explores how digital and analog processes intertwine to shape speculative, hybrid realities. By crafting objects that shift between worlds, his work emerges as an ever-adaptive, speculative landscape—where analog and digital methodologies merge, and each object becomes a fragment of an unfolding world.

FEB 2025 // no sooner do I think I’m you…presents ten short films/video works by seven artists who each, in some way, address the plastic formation of an indeterminate fragile self. The artists reassemble memories, movements, and imaginings into narrative fragments through moving images made with found footage, sound, animation, performance, and other digital methods. Featured artists: Lark Chang-Yeh, Marcelese Cooper, Jake Couri, Parnian Donyari, Jeremy Moss, Whitney Ramage, Ion Yamazaki

JAN 2025 // 'Garbagio’s Garbage Emporium' by Madi Klam explores the relationship between consumerism and garbage through humorous video advertisements and installation. After scavenging for discarded materials in dumpsters and on roadsides, Madi manipulates and assembles them into new objects and markets them as unpriced merchandise

NOV-DEC 2024 // 'Good for the Heart' by Claire Kennedy focuses on the language of painting. Her small object-based works and multimedia paintings come together to create a playful display that draws from themes of collection, curio cabinets, and constellations.

OCT 2024 / 'Consumption' by Vaughan Hennen is an interactive sound performance that used ASMR to challenge the boundaries between the pleasurable and the grotesque.

SEP 2024 // 'BYOA Night' is an invitational pop-up exhibition that introduces Garage Projects.

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Doppler PROJECTS
Atlanta-athens, ga / 2021-15
www.dopplerprojects.com

Doppler Projects is a curatorial collective creating interdisciplinary exhibitions and multi-platform programs in Atlanta and Athens. Placing collaboration and experimentation at the forefront, Doppler challenges both artists and audiences to consider art and ideas beyond their traditional contexts. 

NOV 2021, ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART / 'Remote Residue' is an installation-based curatorial and mail art project consisting of material that is residual, remnant, or peripheral within an artist's practice. The project exhibited and altered refuse from over forty artists to explore notions of authorship, intention, and curatorial imperfection. Residues contributed by: Yanique Norman, Natalie Baxter, Charles Kendrick Fowler, Louise Deroualle, Amalya Megerman, Curtis Ames, Ana Meza, Liz Nurenberg, Kaleena Stasiak, Candice Greathouse, Brenda Mallory, Jenene Nagy, Fei Li, Jordan Stubbs, Skyler Simpson, Travis Townsend, Yoonmi Nam, Marta Lee, Karl Burkheimer, Jackson Markovic, Maeve D'Arcy, Andrew Boatright, Lard Eian Alexander Kouri, Claire Paul, Frankie Toan, Letha Wilson, Michelle Laxalt, Heidi Schwegler, Kim Garcia, Raúl Romero, Sizhu Li, Winnie Sidharta, Jackie Brown, Amelia Carley, Emma Senft, Jessica Caldas, Kristy Hughes, Yesuk Seo, Henry Detweiler, Andrew Jackson, Celina Eceiza, Kellie Romany, Joshua West Smith, Judd Schiffman, Avantika Bawa, Maria Hupfield

SEP 2017, ATLANTA / 'High Kicks, Twirls, and Slips' by Savonna Nicole Atkins is a site-specific temporary textile installation performed in collaboration and with support from the East Atlanta Strut.

JAN - MAR 2017, BLUE MARK STUDIOS + HEARTS TO NOURISH HOPE, ATLANTA / 'Chute' is a two-phase curated exhibition that asked seven visual artists to respond to "The Chute," an essay by writer Sarah Minor. Exhibiting artists: Jessica Caldas, Krista Clark, Meta Gary, Vanessa Jagodinsky, Elham Masoudi, Steven Morrison, Jordan Stubbs

SEP 2016, ATLANTA, 'go figure' curates nine artists that address specific and personal figures, navigating the manic, reflective, absent, and oppressive aspects of identity. Exhibiting artists: Nick Adams, Davion Alston, Jaime Bull, Andrew Catanese, William Downs, Michelle Laxalt, Andy Sloan Jackson, Kellie Romany, Nathan Sharratt. Photo credit: Brandon English

SEP 2015, ATLANTA / 'alternate / alternate' curates eighteen artists as variations of abstracted reality through visual narrative and content/context. Exhibiting artists: Nick Bable, Andrew Boatright, Jaime Bull, Henry Detweiler, Craig Drennen, Larkin Ford, Jill Frank, Alessandra Hoshor, Laila Kouri, Meredith Kooi, Brittainy Lauback, Michelle Laxalt, Ben Bowden Lee, Nick Madden, Steve Morrison, Stephanie Pharr, Trevor Reese, Tori Tinsley

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booth PROJECTS
snowmass village, co / 2019
@BOOTHPROJECTS

booth projects is a curatorial exercise in a repurposed phone booth on the Anderson Ranch campus aimed at providing opportunity for play, collaboration, and pairing artists with incongruous aesthetic prompts and parameters.

NOV 2019 / 'Voting Booth' by Frankie Toan Using soft sculpture made from brightly colored and highly textures materials, I would like to transform the phone booth into an immersive environment that focuses on the physical, personal and social mechanisms of voting. Including interactive elements, I would like to make a 'voting booth' that questions the importance of a personal vote, and also the fear of not casting your vote(s). www.fetoan.com

AUG-SEP 2019 / 'Please wait to be seated' by Derek Faust I create voids in the relationships between materials that plays on the idea of a narrative. This relational practice allows the use of anything and everything from sound, space and image to found objects, text and video. The careful curation of these materials encourages and denies certain contexts and formal threads that create layered fragmented narratives which poke at conventional links, and allusions to analogies and metaphors. These voids are subtle but also accessible in their nature because they are intended to be filled by the viewer, whom I think of as a tourist or traveler. www.derek-faust.com

JUL 2019 / ':skintag' by Matt Bruhn, Andrew Cain, Mackey Howe Much like a tumor, in a mass of people three friendships have accumulated, formed from abnormal situations and brought together in a single place. Even though these connections were not necessary, and are in fact uncommon among interns of different disciplines, it has grown. In fact, as time goes on it accumulates more cells creating more lasting relationships between others that are accumulated to the mass, this cycle has started for us here at the ranch, and we refer to this process as the skin tag. This installation represents the comfort this event has ignited between us.

JAN - MAR 2019 / 'It Could Happen To You' by Candice Greathouse + Curtis Ames Nicolas Cage is an American cinematic icon and sex symbol known for playing the subtle and subdued protagonist or adopting an over-the-top pastiche of the anti-hero. He’s always the leading man, and for better or worse, he’s one of the hardest working actors in the industry pumping out not only critically-acclaimed hits and classics but also epic filmic flops. His mistakes notwithstanding, his personal and professional eccentricities have piqued our collective interest to the point where he has achieved cult status. The image and idea of Nicolas Cage has permeated almost every aspect of consumer culture so much so that at times he has even become a trope of himself. And yet, somehow, all the memes, T-shirts, and pillows bearing his face not only mythologize the man but they also make him more endearing, more relatable, and ultimately more desirable. We can see ourselves in him (or with him). We too can find love, success, fame, fortune, or whatever it is we want (even him). You just have to want it bad enough. Like so bad it hurts. Appropriating the image and idea of celebrity Nicolas Cage, It Could Happen to You is a lighthearted look at desire. This interactive work is an invitation to a mini-Masquerade Ball made for you, two, or a few.... Come inside and find your National Treasure. Recommended length of stay – 7 minutes (in heaven). www.candicegreathouse.com / www.curtisames.com

DEC 2018 / 'Party of 90' is an invitational mail art exhibition.