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.