Poem of E.L.

I'm an artist in film and video, performance, installation and writing.

My work has been shown at museums, galleries worldwide, including: (solo) 2220Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, the Grand Central Art Center, Catharine Clark Gallery, Greenleaf Gallery, Pieter PASD, the Oakland Museum of California, among others, and (group): the Museum of Contemporary Art Utah, Angels Gate Cultural Center, Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, Navel LA, Art Center College of Design, The Goat Farm Atlanta, The Great Wall of Oakland, High Desert Test Sites, Autonomie Gallery, and Movement Research at Judson Church.

Recent film festival showings include: Athens International Film and Video Festival, Arthouse Film Festival (winner of the Eisenstein Award for Best Editing), the San Francisco Dance Film Festival, New Haven International Film Festival, Austin Arthouse Film Festival, Austin Dance on Film, and the New Jersey Film Festival (among others).

I recently was awarded Prospect Art's PRESENT WORK commission and an NEA Distinguished Fellowship at the Hambidge Art Center. I just returned from an Artist Residency at UNC Playmakers where I restaged and created new dance scores. I was the recipient of the inaugural Pieter Performance Grant for Dancemakers, and in 2020 was an Artist in Residence at the McColl Center for Art and Innovation in Charlotte, NC.

I’m a regular contributor to The LA Review of Books, where my essay, Kompromat, was the most read article of 2019. I have written and recorded stories for shows This American Life and The Frame at KPCC, The Awl, Notes on Looking, Avidly, Acid-Free, Baumtest Quarterly, RECAPS Magazine.