When I created Wretched Couch, I never really thought about selling it. This piece was the first sculpture to reframe how I was going about making new work, and I was in the midst of producing for an upcoming exhibition with 3 other artists. This couch was so awkward in that show, surrounded by earlier work that barely related. That said, I strangely felt good about the final outcome. It's an inelegant piece to display: two separate units distanced anywhere between 40-60". I thought, Who would want this? 

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Cedar Rapids Museum of Art 
On view: November 3, 2018 – October 6, 2019 as part of Terra Nova: Ten Years

The CRMA celebrates ten years of collaborating with the Iowa Ceramics Center and Glass Studio. In 2009, the CRMA began meeting with artists who had completed residencies at the Ceramics Center and acquiring a piece of their work—often completed during their residency—for the Museum’s collection. This mutually beneficial arrangement allowed the artists to establish themselves in a museum collection and receive professional experience with curators while growing the CRMA’s collection of three-dimensional art. The exhibition will display artwork from every resident from 2009 to 2018 and both executive directors, a testament to the fruitfulness of this collaboration.