WORK CURRENTLY ON EXHIBITION
Selected drawings A Time in Every Boy's Life and A German Shepherd
Girl, Please! at Woman Made Gallery
November 5 through December 23, 2010
685 North Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL 60642
Click here to find out more about Woman Made Gallery and the exhibition.
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Selected drawings A Time in Every Boy's Life and A German Shepherd
Girl, Please! at Woman Made Gallery
November 5 through December 23, 2010
685 North Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL 60642
Click here to find out more about Woman Made Gallery and the exhibition.
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PROCESS STATEMENT
My approach to studio practice is not simply as a means of production, but rather an occasion to engage in research into aspects of contemporary gender conformities. The process of making work yields an artifact, but more importantly generates a dialog that aims to reconfigure notions of “queer” in art and culture. Currently, my research lies in three overlapping areas: personal identity in relation to cultural expectations, Internet media-based technologies in relation to identity and community construction, and sculptural performance as it relates to the physical and mediated body.
In works Big Space and The Delicate Corral, Construction Worker and Premier Emolument Network Interfacing Structure, I take a task-oriented approach to handling materials so that the content can be accessed on many different levels. Dildos, glitter, Crisco, cake, costume props and common children’s toys are filtered through labor, endurance, commercialization and dissection to produce a new visual language for gender construction in culturally significant ways.
My approach to studio practice is not simply as a means of production, but rather an occasion to engage in research into aspects of contemporary gender conformities. The process of making work yields an artifact, but more importantly generates a dialog that aims to reconfigure notions of “queer” in art and culture. Currently, my research lies in three overlapping areas: personal identity in relation to cultural expectations, Internet media-based technologies in relation to identity and community construction, and sculptural performance as it relates to the physical and mediated body.
In works Big Space and The Delicate Corral, Construction Worker and Premier Emolument Network Interfacing Structure, I take a task-oriented approach to handling materials so that the content can be accessed on many different levels. Dildos, glitter, Crisco, cake, costume props and common children’s toys are filtered through labor, endurance, commercialization and dissection to produce a new visual language for gender construction in culturally significant ways.
