Artist's Statement
My work points to the contradictory messages
transmitted by the form and content of the objects that make up the
contemporary American environment, often referring to literary theory,
semiotics, and feminism. My work is often succinct, using humor
or irony to momentarily make simple what are, ultimately, the
overwhelming questions raised by the neoliberal landscape. In
short, simplicity, for complexity's sake.
I frequently use appropriation in my work because it is an inherently
feminist political operation allowing artists to dismantle and question
the power relationships at work in a given object by acting directly
upon that object itself, claiming the “overlooked” as its own. My work
is invested in turning the formal, ethical, and economic contradictions
inherent in commercial culture back upon themselves. Many of my
projects are collaborative in nature, and often these collaborative
projects appropriate relational aesthetic models for their own
political purposes.