On June 8th, I performed Raggedy Ann to Real Doll at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions with Chris Sheets as part of Irrational Exhibits 9. In addition to being at the performance, viewers could experience the performance via live stream.
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As an interdisciplinary artist and writer who constructs installations and time-based visual narratives that memorialize obsessional lives, I draw inspiration from offbeat characters whose private manias become public fodder for tabloids and reality television. In my practice, I combine dolls, artificial figures, performing objects, and elaborate costumes to investigate contemporary forms of animism, death, sexuality, and addiction. I am fascinated by the negotiation of personal identity – a repetition of a repetition for which there is no original – in an ever-shifting landscape of technologies that can drastically alter and re-map the body.
Raggedy Ann to Real Doll, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
On June 8th, 2016, I performed in Raggedy Ann to Real Doll, an installation in the storefront window of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.
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In June 2016, I was the recipient of funding for the Eugene O’Neill Center Alumni to worked on the script for Model Killer.
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In May and June 2016, my painting, Bernie Sanders Is Fingerlickin Good was on display at Fachapatoto in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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On June 4th I spoke with Allison de Fren at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery on the handmade bodies that populate my work in the COLA Fellowship Exhibition and my obsessions the (in)/animate.
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On May 18th, 2016, Artillery characterized my installation, (In)/Animate Objects as “creepy” and “particularly unsettling”.
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Between May 15 and July 2nd, 2016, I activated (In)/Animate Objects, my installation at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in Los Angeles
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On May 13, 2016, The catalog for the 2016 COLA Fellowship Exhibition came out with an essay on my work by Allison de Fren.
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On May 15th, 2016, I opened my performance-installation (In)/Animate Objects at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in Los Angeles.
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The week of April 25th, 2016, I began unpacking over twelve hundred dolls that I created for my installation (In)/Animate Objects at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery as part of the 2016 COLA Individual Artist Fellowship Exhibition.
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