Artist's Statement

Brazen: Marked by flagrant and insolent audacity. Impudent; immodest; shameless. Clear and obvious, without any attempt to be hidden.

My work is an exploration of the universal experience of “being human”. In my figurative work, I investigate the way that a particular downturn of the mouth, a slump of the shoulders, a furrow of the brow can communicate a private thought or feeling. I am interested in the unabashed expression of a person’s inner-most thoughts, from the fear of never finding love, to the struggle to fully embrace one’s inner and outer beauty. In a time in which the break down of the family unit, rise of technology, and emphasis on the individual are creating deepening levels of disconnection, there is a great need to re-establish intimacy in our lives; my work serves as a reminder of that need.

Historically, I engaged primarily in video art and painting. My videos are performance-based, and I act out a story line to the viewer as if allowing them to witness an intimate moment in my life. I seek directness in these pieces, and do not use intricate editing or sets. My paintings are sometimes based on photos I take of friends, sometimes directly from my imagination. As in my videos, I seek to tell personal stories through paint. In the last few years I have begun to explore how I can bring painting, video and other media together to tell stories in more powerful ways and draw the viewer deeper in.

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