STATEMENT
In creating my prints and installations I borrow heavily from comic books produced during the mid-twentieth century, both as a source of imagery, and for the variety of compositional strategies the genre’s narrative structure suggests. I often infuse these elements with themes, compositions, or references borrowed from across the western art historical canon.
These combinations and manipulations are intended to highlight moments where the original works fail to support the ideas or status with which they have been weighted, either by the artists themselves, or by other institutions. Specifically, I focus on content which prioritizes the European patriarchal experience, either deliberately, for the purpose of increasing the political or financial influence of a particular person or group — or unintentionally, as the result of an unrecognized position of privilege.
As the application of more decentralized and inclusive models of examining and interpreting culture, science, gender, and history increases, the problematic tropes inherent in these materials become more apparent to an ever-increasing population.
My use of this imagery is intended as a confrontation of these shortcomings. Through appropriation and satire I am mining new value from these sources to contribute to the broader
re-examination of long-held, and seemingly intractable, social ideas.
