Looking forward to the January Residency!

Art Work with Working Titles

Juxtaposed Identity

 Relentless Persistence

Nonchalance in the Face of a Tantrum

Induction into the External

Gendered Lessons (in Domesticity)

You Will Be A Princess

A Mother's Charge

Goodbye Infant, Hello Princess

Smile Down the Aisle

Gendered Lesson in Consumerism

Navigating Mass-Produced Girlhood Culture

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Other Images

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Work As Of Late...Coming Together.

 

Early Childhood Gender Socialization

The innocent child is burning away as she enters society and slowing becomes a product of it's early childhood gender socialization...

Help Me! I am getting mixed messages. They want me to go grocery shopping and be a toddler in a tiara!

The cost of being pretty in pink....your identity starts to fade...

 

Get me out of here... 

It is certainly a mixed bag (piece in process)

(Also in process...number 2 of the grocery cart series)

March Madness...

This month I met with my mentor Eric Tomberlin. It seems like it is going to be a great semester.  I am very interested in where our conversations will take us. In critiquing last semesters work, he too stated that the images were dark, muddled, and almost scarey.  He encouraged me to find where my center is and work out from there. He encouraged me to set up images that juxtapose the voyeuristic and confrontational gazes...so interesting.

I am very much looking forward to my next paper where I discuss some of the work of artists that deal with motherhood - both the positive and negative (for lack of a better dichotomy). I hope the following research will better inform my pieces. 

I want to ask provocative questions.  I want to appropriately deal with ambiguity and specificity.  Life is full of details, but we tend to think in ambiguity...

 

Some Images in the Works...

Semester Goals...

In hopes of the immaculate coming together (the graduating seniors always talk about), this semester I plan on investigating images of mother and child and explaining the conceptual relationship between photography and memory. I will focus my first research paper on mother and child imagery, the taboos, attitudes about childhood, how other cultures deal with it, how it is depicted and discussed in art-historical and contemporary artists’ work. I will look further into the work and statements of Janine Antoni, Elinor Carucci, Mary Kelly, Sally Mann, Jenny Saville, Kathe Kollwitz, and Kiki Smith. Once I have a better understanding of that, I would like to look more deeply into the photographs connection to memory in my second research paper. I will research the writings of Susan Sontag (On Photography, Essay on Beauty), Jeffrey Batchen (Forget Me Not), Roland Barthes (Camera Lucida), and Lisa Saltzman (Making Memory Matter). All the while, I will continue to look into the histories of the paper cut out, encaustic medium, and oil paint. I will also think about the implications of feminism, narcissism, the archive, and the audience.  By June I hope to have fifteen to twenty objects that layer, break, and interrupt the photographs, text, silhouettes, outlines, and traces of figures. I hope the series will encompass a specific complexity of parenthood and surprise the viewer through the visceral erasure and collection of materials.