CIGARETTES, SLUGS, SHAREHOUSES, PREACH INCLUSION, STAY SKINNY, SEEM POOR, HAVE THINGS. Maybe your t-shirt wants to be a part of a flag. Would the bricks in your house rather be a painting? I think that slug might like to nap in your bed. And will it be Manchesters or bitch sticks for this weekend?
Employing a material practice of misuse in which objects are subverted, including the art object itself, my artwork takes a humorous stab at the concept of true self-expression and the mystification of art, particularly painting. By subverting objects like the brick and the peg, a rudimentary thingness is revealed, exposing the consumerist nature of the art object. Art making and selling can begin to feel like another yucky way identity is sold to us.
My artwork meets the viewer at eye level, inviting interaction through subversion and play. By digesting the world in front of me through art, I hope I can make plain the both the absurdity and seriousness of living.
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