Projects
Selected exhibitions, curatorial initiatives, installations, performances, and collaborative projects that extend my artistic practice beyond individual works.
Enmeshed
Exhibition Installation & Body of Work
Summer 2025
NEXT PHASE, Fletcher Hall Gallery, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
A collection of works exploring the psychological landscape of familial entanglement, generational trauma, and personal grief through immersive, spatial storytelling.
ARCHIVES EXHIBITIONS
Artist Collective & Curatorial Initiative
2024-2026
Co-founding and organizing a volunteer-run artist collective dedicated to fostering experimental exhibitions, interdisciplinary collaboration, and opportunities for emerging artists in South Louisiana.
Solo Exhibitions
The Human Condition
Solo Exhibition
2023
An exhibition exploring psychological resilience, memory, and the interconnected relationship between people and the natural world through contemporary figurative painting.
Wildflowers
Winter 2023
Alamo Artist Studios, Lafayette, Louisiana
Supported by an ArtSpark Individual Artist Grant from the Acadiana Center for the Arts.
A solo exhibition exploring growth, vulnerability, and resilience through contemporary figurative painting. Drawing upon botanical imagery as both subject and metaphor, Wildflowers examined the quiet ways people adapt, heal, and continue to flourish within changing emotional landscapes.
The Human Condition
Spring 2023
Gallery R, Lafayette, Louisiana
My first major solo exhibition, The Human Condition presented a body of work investigating psychological resilience, identity, grief, and transformation through expressive figurative painting. Bringing together paintings developed over several years, the exhibition reflected an early synthesis of the themes that continue to shape my practice today.
Curatorial Projects
Root
Curated Group Exhibition
Winter 2025
Hallway Gallery, Lafayette, Louisiana
Presented by ARCHIVES Exhibitions
A group exhibition examining the many meanings of rootedness, including place, identity, ancestry, and belonging. Bringing together artists with diverse perspectives, Root invited viewers to consider the connections that ground us while acknowledging the continual process of growth and change.
whimsy
Curated Group Exhibition
Summer 2025
Hallway Gallery, Lafayette, Louisiana
Presented by ARCHIVES Exhibitions
An exhibition celebrating play, imagination, and the unexpected within contemporary art. whimsy encouraged artists to embrace experimentation and curiosity, demonstrating how humor, wonder, and creative freedom can reveal new ways of engaging with both materials and ideas.
BOUNDARIES
Curated Group Exhibition
Spring 2025
Hallway Gallery, Lafayette, Louisiana
Presented by ARCHIVES Exhibitions
BOUNDARIES brought together artists exploring the limits and intersections that shape human experience, from physical and environmental borders to emotional, psychological, and social thresholds. The exhibition encouraged dialogue about the ways boundaries both separate and connect us.
Systems
Curated Multimedia Exhibition
Fall 2024
Chase Tower, Lafayette, Louisiana
Presented by ARCHIVES Exhibitions
As ARCHIVES’ inaugural exhibition, Systems transformed Chase Tower into an immersive environment where visual art, installation, sound, and performance converged. Bringing together artists working across disciplines alongside the performance collective LoudHouse, the exhibition examined the interconnected systems that shape contemporary life while fostering dialogue between artists, audiences, and space.
Spatial Works
Emergence
Performance
Fall 2024
Directed by Lex R. Thomas and Bethany Lejeune
Performed October 5, 2024
Developed in conjunction with Systems, Emergence was a collaborative performance investigating transformation, collective identity, and the porous boundaries between visual art and live performance. Through movement, sound, and spatial interaction, the work considered emergence not as a singular event, but as a continual process of becoming within interconnected systems.
Window Wanderings
Collaborative Performance
Winter 2024
Choreographed by Clare Cook
Presented by Basin Arts
Supported by a Louisiana Project Grant
A multidisciplinary performance exploring movement, place, and public space through choreography and collaboration. Presented as part of Basin Arts’ programming, Window Wanderings invited audiences to experience the built environment through shifting perspectives, emphasizing the relationship between body, architecture, and observation. Louisiana Project Grants support locally driven arts programming across the state.
Workshops & Talks
How to Survive Install
Professional Development Workshop
Summer 2025
Fletcher Hall Gallery, Lafayette, Louisiana
Presented by ARCHIVES Exhibitions
A practical workshop introducing artists to the often overlooked realities of exhibition installation. Through demonstrations and discussion, participants learned professional techniques for planning layouts, handling artwork safely, installing exhibitions, and preparing work for presentation within gallery spaces.
Figure Drawing Night
Community Drawing Program
Spring 2025
Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, Louisiana
Presented by ARCHIVES Exhibitions & Creative Acadiana
A recurring community figure drawing session designed to create an accessible space for artists of all experience levels to develop observational drawing skills. The program encouraged creative exchange, strengthened relationships within Acadiana’s arts community, and celebrated drawing as a lifelong practice.
Artists in Conversation: How I Got Gallery Representation
Public Conversation
FALL 2024
Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, Louisiana
Presented by Creative Acadiana
A public conversation with artists Troy Dugas and Lex R. Thomas examining the realities of developing a professional studio practice and building relationships with galleries. The discussion explored career development, exhibition opportunities, and the evolving paths artists take toward professional representation, offering practical insight for emerging artists within the region.