“Hair Urchin”
Oil based ink on white rag paper (paper origin unknown)
16 x 16 in.
2008
“She never saw it coming either”
Oil based ink on white Arches paper
30 x 22 in.
2008
“Vanity Curls”
22 x 30 in.
Oil based ink on white Arches paper
2008
Artist Statement
My artistic vision takes traditionally unsavory subjects and playfully seeks to extract beauty from them, suggesting that the viewer always take a second look–that which repulses us has equal capacity to attract and fascinate. Having previously used human hair to render line physical in paintings, I am now using drawing and printmaking to achieve the effect of hair (the whirl, the loop, the ringlet) without reverting to a material so burdened by its historical connotations. I find that the immediacy of drawing–either in the traditional sense or via monotypes–lends itself to my process of constructing dense forms out of line en masse. In larger conceptual terms, I am greatly informed by the idea of the abject, the gendered, and the liminal in these recent explorations. Through ongoing experimentation with line quality and layering, I have come closer to the place I had been seeking with these new works: an oeuvre that flirts with the universal by emphasizing the curious and unexpected.
Website
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