| My work is about social pressures and social conventions. Both the pressures we place on ourselves and the pressures we feel from our families, friends, and popular culture. I investigate the fear and freedom linked to not conforming. | |||||||||
| I have explored the chasm between what mothers want for their daughters and what those daughters want for themselves, the longing to feel beautiful and the ongoing and often futile maintenance involved in pursuing this goal, and the expectation that all women want to be mothers. | |||||||||
| In my most recent project, Unselfish People are Colourless, 2007, a continuation of Who is Dulcinea, 2005, I create a distilled look at the past by employing removal and physical space to represent the decontextualized and transformed fragments of reality that become memory. | |||||||||
| My ideas are represented with the medium I deem most effective for each work, photography, video, installation, performance, and appropriated-object sculpture. | |||||||||
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picture progress 2007 auction supporting the league of young voters friday, june 15, 2007 7:30pm | |||||||||
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vernissage san francisco art institute 2007 master of fine arts graduate exhibition friday, may 18, 2007 6-9pm | |||||||||
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the diversity project equal access online exhibition - now showing | |||||||||
| build your dream collection, 2007 the independent london | |||||||||
| new directions, 2007 wall space - guest curator michael foley of foley gallery, new york | |||||||||
| i like ur art: saatchi creates an online hangout for artists, 2006 new york times | |||||||||
| artist profile, 2006 her circle ezine | |||||||||
| i want to feel clean, 2006 diego rivera gallery | |||||||||
| curriculum vitae, 2007 denise parsons | |||||||||