Recently, I have focused on humans relating to each other through the shared experience of passing time. Noticeably, some individuals have a distinct struggle with the passage of time. Their struggle seems to stem from a resistance to change, and a grasping for control. These are two very human qualities to which most viewers can [...]
NOH-CHIM (missing), social intervention video, seoul, Korea
An American artist returns to Seoul, Korea where she was born and given up for adoption almost 30 years ago. Interlaced with various art performances and interventions, text from her adoption documents, and national television search for her birth family, the video investigates the process by which the [...]
To be both a women and an artist in society is to operate in a double burner of self-doubt. We are subjected to all the ideals of feminine appearance and behavior, and face the tenuous prospect of justifying our non-commercial endeavors in a commodified society.
In this environment, I turned to stitching every horrible [...]
‘the bear rug’ was created for a cave near a waterfall where I was residing last winter.
It is a magical space which I briefly inhabited,
as a bear,
living in the habitat I had created for myself.
An onlooker might see the installation as a home for someone else,
a cozy spot complete with a bear rug.
it is a tribute to the bears who have fallen to become flooring for someone else.
‘the bear rug’ focuses on habitation,
living within the natural world instead of altering and destroying it.
‘the bear rug’ is specific to a cave out in New Jersey’s bear country;
they have reclaimed their habitat and fortunately are protected.
I am the guest here.
We are all the guests here.
Pink Bride, 1:28 2008
Pink Bride explores the tension between the sacred and the profane, as I enact an hysterical attack through the use of gesture and repetition.
Devour captures the actions of three women as they pass an orange without the use of their hands. The work evokes female sensuality and references Edvard Munch’s vampiric images.
My video works explore the nature of female identity, eroticism, and hysteria. The videos are montages of performative actions and symbolic images that address the complex relationship [...]
My work revolves around human beings’ relationship with nature and the natural world — focusing on human sexuality and gender as it relates to our often denied animal origins, and environmental issues such as habitat loss, climate change, and the complexity of ecosystems.
This drawing, Spawning III is part of an ongoing series that investigates the [...]
Using a cactus and a high heel shoe that is covered and painted again to look like itself, Go Get ‘Em creates an abrupt visual scenario through the collision of the emblematic ‘pump’ and the thorny, uprooted cactus.