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Statement

HOPE FOR THE BEST, EXPECT THE WORST

My work can be characterized by my ambivalence between optimism and pessimism.

Though I would like to be an optimist, I am a resolute realist. For me, pessimism is rooted in “shittiness”— quotidian tribulations of corporeal reality. Optimism, on the other hand, suggests transcendence. I see an analogous paradox in art: conceptual art must be materialized (but materials are often mundane and ubiquitous, like photocopies or common art supplies), and yet art is still expected, quite optimistically, to convey the ineffable, to illuminate the unknowable. I don’t expect—but still aspire towards—redemption through the act of creating art.

I work in multiple media, including works on paper, installation, paper cuts, photographs and mixed media. Operating with an interest in failure and the inadequacy of daily life and corporeal reality, more recent works explore personal and social transformation.