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STATEMENT OF WORK
My work, which spans paintings, drawings, relief prints and lithographs, is characterized by the interplay of shape, line, and multi-perspective layering. Beneath the surface lies a fragmented yet intentional imagery drawn from historic and contemporary musings on fluidity, pop culture, fairy tales, and a fictional American landscape. My yearlong exploration, Pleasures of Duality, which delves into the intricate dynamics of gender, memory, and the expansive. By referencing sources as varied as Audubon’s mammal lithographs, 20th Century cartoon characters, and the work of artists like Leon Polke, Paul Gauguin, and Elizabeth Murray, I aim to create windows into a universe where expected relational and narrative scripts are expanded. I continue to challenge and re-imagine societal constructs around representations of gender in my work.
One ongoing exploration of this subject has been my subversion of the art historical female nude, a long-standing subject of the male gaze. Rejecting the professional sterility and power imbalance between a hired female model posing prone for a male artist who controls her representation, my work relies on the interpersonal relationships I share with my male-bodied subjects, who are all artists themselves. These connections imbue their final images with the depth of our shared conversations, which often concern the experience of posing as a model. Additionally, I explore the male nude detached from typical lenses of power and desire, focusing instead on its formal qualities.
I use these resulting images and other various figurative studies to create unique accordion-style books of fables. Reimagining familiar stories, these unique artist books stand alone as art pieces, composed of new drawings and collage, along with recent stone lithographs, relief prints, and paintings on paper. Drawing on the sites of early gender enculturation and the covert messaging found within fables and folklore, these works incorporate written words with imagery from various cultural representations throughout time and space.