I had a show in Gallery III on campus during the Thanksgiving week. This displays the painting work I did this semester, along with some previous stuff I didn't include in my graduate application portfolio. This was supposed to be a "get to know professors and expose my work to professors."
Artist Statement:
Jacques Derrida writes that a culture’s philosophy can be rooted in the linguistic structure of that culture. I started these works as a study on language and the deconstructionist approach to understanding literary theory.
As I have learned more about art history, I developed a distaste for the separation between public understanding of art and art practice/theory. By my view, the specialization of art theory has distanced the public from understanding art, very similar to other disciplines which have their internal set of symbols, communication and iconography. Many of the symbols in this body of work are taken from various disciplines, which have meaning within those disciplines.
I then began to appropriate the “cute” imagery which my generation grew up with representing our philosophical basis. These images bother me. I feel like these cuddly and cutesy characters are polluting our visual experience and I am terrified by it. I view these pieces as an addition to the kitsch dialogue in fine art.
My compositions are intuitively created from images which either reflect or were appropriated from the lexicon of digital “street culture.” I am not trying to be a part of that culture, but be aware of how this culture affects us.
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