Nanette La Salle

I employ the human female or the canine to explore affect, the abject and archetypes. Utilizing archetypal constructs allows me to address both past and present, the universal and the timeless. I deliberately counter the sentimentality of the classically ideal (some would say saccharine) figurative tradition by offering the abject. Whether woman or dog, the figures represent the fragility of the marginalized, as well as the vulnerability of all mankind, our isolation, fear and struggle with an overwhelming, seductive, and often dysfunctional world. My intent is to critically examine our culture's frequent insensitivity to the "other." Ideally, the viewer would identify with the archetypal content, not reject the abject, or resist the aesthetic affective mode of the communication, but embrace the content and take the opportunity to understand more clearly another's experience of the world, turning dissonance into consonance

Artist's Biography
Nanette La Salle recently received her MFA from UCLA, 2010, and received her MS in graphic design from Pratt Institute in New York. After a successful career as an Emmy Award winning designer for the Fox Network, she has returned to her roots in ceramics and sculpture. Her work has been shown in New York, Miami and Los Angeles.