What is my work about?
My work is about the process of becoming woman. The voice is multiple, emotional, vulnerable, considerate, and assertive. It is the voice of a self that is becoming part of the social, a sexate being, a citizen and member of the world, unafraid of imposed structures and psychologies of fear, domination, and subordination. A voice that is as angry as it is willing, desirous of being represented in a complex way. A voice that resists the enslavement of women for free labor that the patriarch and capitalism both demand and rely upon.
Artist Statement
The work has come to center on the interrelation between feminism, language and ethics. Precarious language and subjects highlight the vulnerability necessary to engage in a critique of the self as well as larger systems of power. The voices consider one another in order to support between women exchanges and to cultivate a feminine subjectivity.
CV
Education
2009
Master of Fine Art, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, NY
2007
Professional Printer Trainer Program, Tamarind Institute of Lithography, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2001
Bachelor of Fine Art, University of Wisconsin River Falls, River Falls, WI
Performances and Collaborations
2014
Come Early and Often, A Benefit Event, Chapter NY
Wing & Wing, in collaboration with Danna Vajda, Art Metropole, Toronto, ON
SLOTS, in collaboration with Davida Nemeroff, Young Art Gallery, LA, CA
2013
The Aesthetics of Love, Performance, Night Gallery, LA, CA
2012
G.B.M.F, in collaboration with Douglas Boatwright, Souterrain, Berlin, GE
Where the Skin Gets Pinched, in collaboration with Davida Nemeroff, Young Art Gallery, LA, CA
2011
Breaking Waves, Performance, Taxter and Spengemann, NY, NY
2010
MADAM presents ACCESSORX, in collaboration with Mira Dancy, Night Gallery, LA, CA
Selected Exhibitions
2014
Autograft, Laurel Gitlen Gallery, NY, NY
Unlike Scene, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, GE
Bad Conscience, curated by John Miller, Metro Pictures, NY, NY
2013
XOXO, Night Gallery, LA, CA
Nackter Glaubigen, curated by Davida Nemeroff, Infernoesque, Berlin, GE
Madam Zazouf, curated by Pati Hertling, NY, NY
2012
How to Download a Boyfriend, curated by Ian Cheng, Badlands Publishing Inc, NY, NY
2011
How I was burned, Oh the mountains, Galeri Marquise Dance Hall, Istanbul, TK
2010
NEW YORK, Night Gallery at Participant Gallery, NY, NY
Das Heilmittel, Night Gallery, Frankfurt, GE
Brooklyn is Burning, Berkley Art Museum, Berkley, CA
Queer Voice, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Idea for the Here and Now, curated by Transformazium, Christina Ray Gallery, NY, NY
Forte, Audio Visual Arts, NY, NY
2009
New Prints 2009, International Print Center of New York, NY, NY
The living and the dead, curated by Darren Bader, Gavin Brown Enterprise, NY, NY
Columbia University SoA MFA Thesis Show, curated by Joao Ribas, Fischer Landau Center, NY
The Practice of Joy Before Death, curated by Arlen Austin, Scaramouche Gallery, NY, NY
2008
Columbia University SoA MFA First Year Show, curated by Regine Basha, Columbia University, NY
Curatorial Projects
2014
Invagination: Mother Lover, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Theater, Stuttgart
2012
Invagination Requires Write to Life, Night Gallery LA, CA
2011
Invagination: Hunger is Real, H.E.N.S Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Invagination: A Seagull Presents Woman to Woman, Kara Walk Studio, NY, NY
2010
Invagination and the death of a hamster: 4 those with and without, Kara Walker Studio, NY, NY
Collectives
MADAM, Co-Founder, NY, NY
HANS EISLER NAIL SALON, Communications Director,NY, NY
Holding Her Shape Collects, Co-Founder, NY, NY
Forte Magazine, Contributing Editor, NY, NY
Columbia University Graduate Artist and Art Historian Lecture Series, Co-Founder, NY, NY
Publications
Flash Art, Horror and Abuse, November 2014
Burnaway, Introductory Interview, August 2013, Atlanta GA
Night Papers, Issues 1, 2, 3 & 4, Los Angeles, CA
Qui Parle, Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, Special Dossier: Affect Theory, Vol. 20, Number 2, Spring/ Summer 2012, Berkley, CA
A Tale of Three Cities Journal #2, The Home Issue, 2012, London
Reviews
Turning a Page| Cara Benedetto at Taxter & Spengemann, New York Times Magazine, by Kevin McGarry, November 14, 2011
LA Weekly, Big Holes and Female High Jumpers, by Catherine Wagley, March 4, 2012
Work It, Working Mother: L.A. Summer Performances, Art in America, by Catherine Damman, July 24, 2013
This Book Owns No One This Book Owes No One, The Art Book Review, by Mieke Marple, July 29, 2013
Teaching Experience
2014 – Present
Visiting Professor of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2013 – 2014
Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Professor of Art, Performance and New Media, Stuttgart, GE
2009 – 2012
Columbia University SoA, Profess of Art Adjunct Faculty
Not for Profit Professional Experience
2012- 2013, Artadia, Program Director, NY, NY
2010- 2012, Community Environmental Center, NYC CoolRoofs, Program Director, NY, NY
2003-2010, Publicolor Inc., Program Outreach Coordinator, Site Coordinator, Event Planner, NY, NY
Grants and Scholarships
2014-2013
Cooperation Fellow, Academy Schloss Solitude and Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste
2012
Souterrain Artist Residency, Berlin, GE
2009
Columbia University SoA Scholarship, Catwalk Residency, Catskill, NY
Columbia University SoA Compass Fund Scholarship, Mildred’s Lane Residency, PA
2008
Columbia University SoA Merit Scholarship, NY, NY
2007-09
Columbia University SoA Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies Fellowship, NY, NY
2006
Tamarind Institute Teaching Grant, Artists Studio, St. Petersburg, RU
2005
UW-RF Teaching Grant, Athens School of Fine Art, Solar Plate Workshop, Athens, GR