Coming up: Opening Reception & Open Studios for NARS Residency
June 5 Friday, 6-9pm
June 6 Saturday, 1-5pm
NARS Building, 201 46th St 4fl, Brooklyn, New York 11220
I am a Brooklyn-based artist working across sculpture, performance, video, and installation. I create abstract portraits of bodies in mid-movement. They take on positionalities of weightedness, gravitational yield, subversion, pain, and grief. My work is a reconciliation of the human instinct to displace pain and trauma in order to withstand our capitalist systems.
The bodies in my work negotiate with constraint and separation - contained within the vessel bound by skin, and disassembled into batched-out body parts that toe the line between recognizable and indistinguishable. The choreography of flesh and mass in my work communicates a merger of somatic and psychological embodiment of personal and collective trauma.
My sculptures store in itself the implicit memory of my actions on its material, the imposition of my body lands as an imprint of a gesture or archive of a performance that is no longer present for the viewer. For these reasons, I work with sculptural materials that have capacity to reveal the mark of my body - metal, latex, nylon, resin, clay, and plaster. The interplay of these materials amplify permeability, tensile stretch, and pliability of our skin held together by the structures of fascia, tissue, bone, and mass.
I use my body as a site for confrontation in my video-based performances, studying the making and unmaking of weight on the body.