American culture places a great emphasis on consumerism. This focus effects every individual that lives in the USA, as well as, those outside its borders. My work through the mediums of photography and installation is a conscious ethnographic study, that idocumentsi the daily activities that make up my life as a woman living in an urban center in an economically developed nation.

Using visual narratives, this work explores the habits and customs associated with daily life in American society. I have been making self-portraits of mundane activities sequentially (a la Muybridge)-- the process of eating, sitting doing laundry, peeingOe By revealing the process of making photographs and manipulating irealityi within the boundaries of the artwork, the routines appear both fabricated and real.

The ideas intrinsic to performance art, voyeurism and subjective reality prevalent on the Web have influenced my current. I am interested in incorporating this visual language to investigate the ambiguity inherent to photography and the idea that culture and all that it encompassesorace and classois simply a construct.

Biography

M.F.A. 1995 Photography, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
B.A. 1989 Spanish Literature, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH.
AIRis, Fellowships & Awards
2001 CyberArt Residency, Longwood Arts Project, Bronx, NY.
2000 Artist in Residence, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY.
1999 Rotunda Gallery/BCAT Residency, Brooklyn, NY.
1999 Artist in the Marketplace (A.I.M), Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY.
1997 PDN Digital Photography Annual Award
1995-1996 Oberlin Alumni Graduate Fellowship, through the Henry J. Haskell Fund

Selected Exhibitions

2000
You are Herei, Sleep Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
20 Years in the Marketplace, a retrospective of past AIM artists, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY.
Satellite, a group exhibition of Site-Specific Installations in a domestic space, New York, NY.
1999
Mere Words, Longwood Arts Gallery, Bronx, NY.
Artists Prints and Multiples 99, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY.
Inbox, a series of works on paper by emerging artists, Quartet Editions, New York, NY.
Members Group Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX.
Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY.
Funkshun, group exhibition curated by Kathleen Spicer, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY.
NY Historic Interiors, Municipal Arts Society, traveling exhibition, New York, NY.
1998
Industrial Desire, 2-person show, Alfred Lowenhertz Gallery, New York, NY.
The Digital Print Exhibition/Workshop, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY.
1997
New England: New Amsterdam, Juried Exhibition, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT.
YSOS 2, Juried Exhibition, Washington Center for Photography, Washington, D.C.
Photography and the Human Element, 4-person show, Art Space Lima, Lima, OH.
1996
Accuracies in Perception, solo exhibition, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art (UICA), Grand Rapids, MI.
Group Show, juried Exhibition, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY.
Women in the Visual Arts, Juried Exhibition, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT.
1995
Worth a Thousand Words, juried by Duane Michals, Benham Art Gallery, Seattle, WA.
Regional Juried Photography Exhibition, (3rd place award), Evansville Museum of Art and Science, Evansville, IN.
Creative Images, (1st Place Award) Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN.
Publications
1999  El Diario/La Prensa-Arte/Cultura 36 Artistas emergentes in El Bronx by Mauricio Velazquez de Leon
1999  NY Arts-Album, In the Bronx: Art in the Marketplace
1997  PDN Photography Annual, Digital Imagery, NY. NY
Catalogues
1999  Artist in the Marketplace, catalogue, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY.
1996  Stoplight City, exhibition catalogue, Indiana University Kokomo Art Gallery, Kokomo, IN

Work

LYING ON THE SOFA, 2000

WATERING THE GARDEN, 2000

WAITING FOR THE PLANE, 2000