Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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STATEMENT OF WORK
Using materials and mediums in surprising ways, I explore domesticity and women's domestic issues through disciplines such as sculpture, fiber art, photography, video, and installation. My curiosity about materials and my experience as a fashion designer, wife, and mother from rural Iowa inform my work. The medium employed for each body of work adjusts based on the best approach to conveying my ideas.
My current work honors the scientific origins of home economics and women’s work by embracing cooking, sewing, and craft skills. I use kitchen chemistry and items from my pantry to create all-natural biodegradable plastic and composite materials that encapsulate kitchen leftovers, family financial statements, shredded U.S. currency, and the language of flowers. The home-cooked materials are stitched or crafted into objects and quilt patterns that critique constraints, myths, and demands of domesticity, marriage, motherhood, and capitalism. Due to the biodegradable properties, the pieces have the potential to be liberated given the right environmental conditions.