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STATEMENT OF WORK
As a young artist I was exclusively a painter, until, having been introduced to meaning making (in semiotics and critique courses), my work expanded into other mediums. For the last several years, a return to painting seemed important, but elusive until, eventually, my expectation found my intent. Although I make my way on strange legs, I am exploring my voice.
These paintings continue my examination of how meaning operates in the commercial language—how we take advertising’s messages as though they go without saying, and how they inform what we make of ourselves. The commercial language has a structure of meaning that does not correspond with existence. In the same way we generally have a habit of confusing our knowledge with the actuality of things. I work with aspects of the way meaning breaks down around concepts of value and beauty.
There is a sense of disorganization in these works, but it is rounded by color, dreaminess and even humor. The paintings suggest that we are no longer in the imagined safety of bygone eras, yet we move through the strange, fantastic portal of our time with agency.