Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York

This course examines ways of looking and ways of seeing, both personally & professionally as artists and in a larger cultural context. Through field trips to contemporary art and other cultural sites, conversations with visiting critical thinkers and practicioners, readings, discussions, and visual & written responses, we will examine how we look, think, act, create and respond--critically questioning our own artistic practices and ways of looking at the world.

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

My art

My art explores the challenging dynamics between object and background, body and identity, self and society. I create figurative work because it is most intimate; through concentrating on the human body, I am provided an endlessly complicated platform to examine these nuanced relationships. Is it possible to highlight both subject and background without the risk of one element falling into obscurity? How does a body assume an identity (more exactly, what physical elements are necessary for self-recognition)? How do I breathe life into an object, capturing emotion and energy within an inanimate surface? These questions yield no definable answer but demand faith in the unexplainable. Contentment with questioning. 
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