Artist Bio
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I am a fine artist, an educator, and a collaborator.
Through my art practice, I have investigated a range of challenging social and cultural issues preoccupying the United States, including homelessness, gun violence and children, police violence, domestic violence, domestic labor, reproductive rights, motherhood and breastfeeding, and the intersection of technology and nature. I have explored these issues across different platforms, including sculpture, installation, projection mapping, animation, film and video, community-based art, and performance art. |
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I often create new objects by re-purposing and re-contextualizing existing objects, such as tents, grocery carts, and children’s play structures. I have exhibited my installations in the Los Angeles area –the Gamble House; Side Street Projects; the Armory Center for the Arts; the Brewery; the old LA County Jail; Pasadena City Hall, Police Station and Library; and Pasadena’s Lower Arroyo Park.
I am a Professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Expanded Animation Research + Practice program, where I teach Cinematic and Media-based Installations and Art of Animation, a stop motion (downshooter) animation class. I have received several USC Visions & Voices faculty grants to invite cutting edge visiting artists to campus, which has given my students opportunities to participate in innovative workshops and to create original animation for campus-wide screenings and installations.
In the early nineties, I helped form a collaborative group of women artists who are mothers, M.A.M.A. (aka Mother Artists Making Art). Our interdisciplinary art projects explore breastfeeding and motherhood. They have been installed, performed, and streamed in various Southern California venues. Our most recent work, Pop-Up Condom Shop (2023), intends to disrupt the gender inequities in birth control and demands that ejaculators take individual responsibility for their sperm in a post-Roe v. Wade world.
From 1995 to 2018, I served on the Board of Directors of NewTown Arts, an artist-run, non-profit organization dedicated to presenting multidisciplinary art forms in unconventional, Southern California locations. At NewTown, I co-curated and assisted with dozens of media, sonic, and installation exhibitions in alternative sites. I am the creator of NewTown's trademark Reels on Wheels, a mobile drive-in, experimental movie series.
I received my MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts, and my BA in Art from Brown University. My graduate thesis film, Seven Lucky Charms, received a Student Academy Award (Silver, Experimental) and has been screened at numerous domestic and international film festivals. I am the recipient of a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship, an Annenberg Foundation Independent Media Grant, a Brody Arts Fund Media Fellowship Grant, and several independent artist grants and ArtNight Mini-grants from the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division for public art projects made in collaboration with the community.
I am a Professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Expanded Animation Research + Practice program, where I teach Cinematic and Media-based Installations and Art of Animation, a stop motion (downshooter) animation class. I have received several USC Visions & Voices faculty grants to invite cutting edge visiting artists to campus, which has given my students opportunities to participate in innovative workshops and to create original animation for campus-wide screenings and installations.
In the early nineties, I helped form a collaborative group of women artists who are mothers, M.A.M.A. (aka Mother Artists Making Art). Our interdisciplinary art projects explore breastfeeding and motherhood. They have been installed, performed, and streamed in various Southern California venues. Our most recent work, Pop-Up Condom Shop (2023), intends to disrupt the gender inequities in birth control and demands that ejaculators take individual responsibility for their sperm in a post-Roe v. Wade world.
From 1995 to 2018, I served on the Board of Directors of NewTown Arts, an artist-run, non-profit organization dedicated to presenting multidisciplinary art forms in unconventional, Southern California locations. At NewTown, I co-curated and assisted with dozens of media, sonic, and installation exhibitions in alternative sites. I am the creator of NewTown's trademark Reels on Wheels, a mobile drive-in, experimental movie series.
I received my MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts, and my BA in Art from Brown University. My graduate thesis film, Seven Lucky Charms, received a Student Academy Award (Silver, Experimental) and has been screened at numerous domestic and international film festivals. I am the recipient of a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship, an Annenberg Foundation Independent Media Grant, a Brody Arts Fund Media Fellowship Grant, and several independent artist grants and ArtNight Mini-grants from the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division for public art projects made in collaboration with the community.