August 20, 2014
A recent studio experience was the subject of this essay that I submitted to Girls Get Busy. Girls Get Busy is a feminist creative platform that supports artists, writers and musicians. It is curated by Beth Siveyer. I am grateful for this opportunity to share why I create this work, in an international platform, such as this magazine. Often times I think about the experiences I have had that I haven't written or spoken about publicly. This is one where, through sharing, I am hoping to connect...
January 27, 2014
As a resident artist at the Lauderhill Arts Center, I have the opportunity to curate exhibitions in the gallery space. My month is this March. I have known for months that I had this time to create an exhibition. I was not able to come up with a new project and work with the limited resources that I have. I dreaded moving forward. I was not aware that I have been creating the content for this show all along. It took a year and had various collaborators. I concept for the show in March came to...
September 30, 2013
This piece originated four years ago, in a Target store in Atlanta. I was in town for my friend's graduation. As we shopped in the store, we walked through the toy aisle. I saw the wands and wondered if anyone else saw what I saw. I saw a phallus. It made me think wonder, what kind of toys are we giving our children to play with? I wanted to be very blunt and I thought about attaching these wands to male silhouettes.
September 23, 2013
We have all heard the songs and seen the videos, but have we stopped to consider the consequnces of the strip club and how it effects our perception of others?
September 16, 2013
I was an an art event last week with a friend of mine. I was showing her my new work on my iPad when two artists approached us. They had glimsed the images and wanted to know more. The men asked a lot of questions about my work. The same questions I address in these videos. As I spoke about the work and showed them images, they wantedto know what sparked the work and what it was about. As I carried on through the Targets and got into the Strip Club Signs, one of the men began to undertsand the...
September 10, 2013
I have decided to share my work in a new way. I made a few videos where I am talking about my work. This video is about the start of my work. I show a few of the begininng pieces that lead me on my current path. These pieces are not on my website. I am not sure how or if I will use them later. There are more videos to come. I have YouTube and Vimeo channels now. You can also subscribe there as well. Feel free to comment, like and share. Sign up for the newsletter and stay up to date!
August 17, 2013
I have been participating in open creative sessions. It was a bit of a challenge to develop the work in an analog form, as I do not typically work this way. I used the camers to capture what worked and what I wanted to think about further. I printed the photos on my printer. The drum unit is malfunctioning, so there are horizontal lines on the prints. I didn't mind at first, but I began to think about the horizontal lines. They remind me of the photos oof TV screens. This made me think of porn...