Hello Yuma!
First of all I am very excited to be
attending and presenting at Yuma! After hearing rave reviews from friends and artists
I am very eager to take part and see and hear all the wonderful things the
symposium has to offer.
It’s been a busy year, my summer started off
with a bang by going straight into a residency at the Vermont Studio Center
after my classes wrapped. This was a wonderful experience and led to the start
of a whole new body of work, which I will be including in my presentation.
Goldfinch -
Pink Cord
40x60,
Archival
Ink Jet Print
I will also be speaking about the work I have
been involved in making over the past several years. With all my work I am
interested in a dialog between the seemingly natural world and the simulated or
manufactured. I am
interested in comparing established idealist utopian ways of representing the
landscape to the hyper-perfect way products and modern consumer life are
represented in media. I’m particularly interested in the idea of
disillusionment through false or misleading representation.
Hydroginated Bounty
43x33, Archival Ink Jet Print
Cheeted
43x24, Archival Ink Jet Print
I work digitally combining images of fabricated
and artificial and staged flora and fauna with commercially produced and
processed products. I look at how these seemingly unrelated and absurd
groupings or composites begin to address attitudes and understandings of the
contemporary experience. I represent the natural world through completely
unnatural elements to speak metaphorically and symbolically of our mental
separation from what is “real” and compare and contrast this with the consumer
world we surround ourselves with as a consequence. Ultimately this work is an
investigation into the manipulation of truth.
Forage
23x31, Archival Ink Jet Print
Pink Placebo
23x34, Archival Ink Jet Print
Bologna
23x34, Archival Ink Jet Print
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