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STATEMENT OF WORK
I make paintings that celebrate the classical male form while examining themes of community, kinship, gender identity, and performativity. My recent series pulls from reference images taken during Pride celebrations on Gay Beach in San Francisco. As a queer female painter, my focus for these paintings begins with the gazes between men taking place alongside yet indifferent to the presence of women. I’m fascinated by how this triangulation of gazes, including my own, displaces the desire typically imbued in artist-subject relationships. I want to push against the notion that men painting women can be the only acceptable cross-gender gaze.
Many of the figures in my paintings are depicted with turned backs and obscured faces. In the absence of facial distinction, I seek to highlight how body language and material objects reveal markers of identity, and how this tangled mass of bodies comes to represent a nuanced version of community. I utilize unnatural, brightly colored bodies to emphasize the performativity of the scene while offering figures the individuality that faces would otherwise provide.