Queer Utopia
In this new body of work I’m thinking about Queer Utopias, subverting a heteronormative status quo dreaming of joyful futuristic spaces full of possibility. I use my identity as a queer feminist artist to examine the tension between material/emotion, and language/memory as I cut up old paintings and reconfigure them into something new. Mixing and experimenting with different materials, such as spray paint, bleach and safety pins, in addition to the inclusion of text and drawing allows for a tension and spontaneity in how they react to one another; a push-pull in exploring the visceral in the painterly.
Queer Utopia draws upon influences of the Riot Grrrl movement, Miranda July, Pussy Riot, Queen Bees, and Dyke culture. Ideas of deconstruction, transformation, and raw emotion ruminate throughout this series. A re-imagination of construction, pairing older and newer pieces, sometimes attaching with safety pins references the performative and punk influence of disrupting the norm. Ideas of feminism, performance, adolescence, and identity circulate throughout as I dream of futuristic queer utopias.
