ARTIST STATEMENT: I started making art in high school when I discovered photography. Then I entered college and chose a psychology major. I slowly added a photography class, then art minor, and then major, and now I am a recent graduate with a BFA degree. I have strayed from photography to focus on painting and graphic arts. Each medium gives me a new expression. However, they are all the same; they give rise to feelings of surprise, joy, frustration and contemplation. Creating art has been powerful for me; I can merely point to an explanation of why and how it has pulled me. I never appreciated viewing art until I started to create. It did not speak to me until I experienced the process. I almost still do not understand. It is mysterious. A way of communication from an alter state of my being which I can not identify but at the same time it is my whole being. Painting is my tool for discussing intense psychological states. My goal is to evoke thought and curiosity. I hope to move my art to a level that has an emotional impact on the audience, which would lead to a revaluation of their intellectual state. In my painting career I have often created portraits or still lifes. While these images hold individual creativity, the emotional purpose of the art was not fully developed. My main focus was on technical aspects; for instance, composition, color, form and realistic representation. I am not adding a conscious statement to the works, although I do not wish to constrict the individual intrepretation. My current purpose has just recently presented it self. In some of the paintings I experimented with the feeling of being mentally and socially confined, feeling forced to stay wihtin the boundaries that others have set and that one has set for her or his self. Many of these paintings are of women contained in a box, which lets them appear marketed and massproduced. The box also depicts their confined freedom or tension in thought and emotion. The light shines on these women, exposing them to the public. The women are nude or lightly clothed to show vulnerability, honesty and the concept of truth.
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