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...
October 07, 2013
I participated the one-night show at the Girl's Club in Fort Lauderdale. I had two prints, 24" x 18", of new work. My intention was to get public feedback on this new work. The yellow Post-Its that you see, are from artists. The purple ones are from judges.
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.
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...