Art and Politics Artist Statement:

 

My process-oriented approach leads me into dialogue with my materials.  The ensuing dialogue, between surfaces, colors and shapes, forms a physical metaphor for the connections and relationships that bind and form inner and outer self.  My work explores the apparent contrasts that we all possess as we fill various roles and adapt to the environments and communities in which we are both challenged and given the opportunity to explore previously untapped parts of our selves.

 

With the impulse to explore these connections and relationships, I am also drawn to explore the familiar institutions, belief systems and cultural assumptions where the inner disconnects belie the outer cohesion.  As a woman my work naturally delves the fractured landscape of the reality of a woman's experience in a political and religious environment where most assumptions/laws/privileges presuppose some kind of essential cohesive feminine character.  Of the pieces in this show, two, (“girls, girls, girls” and “Temple”) specifically arise from the confluence of gender and politics while the third (“New State Religion) is a broader reflection on the American Dream.