tampa, FL, United States
PACKAGED SERIES STATEMENT Pop culture has notoriously sexualized and objectified the ideal body ...
About the artist
Joined In 2010
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About the artist
Joined In 2010
(7 Followers)
PACKAGED SERIES
STATEMENT
Pop culture has notoriously sexualized and objectified the ideal body image, using it as a tool of productivity. The idealized body is the focal point of nearly every commercial and is the center of any noteworthy ad. The commodities that are actually being advertised, such as food or cars, are worth nothing without the commodities that the bodies posing for it actually bring. These advertisements aren't really focusing on the product, but in fact on the body image itself.
In making these bodies into objects of ultimate beauty and desire, advertisers are glossing over the fact that, in this scenario, the body is merely an item. They are teaching us that the body is an object to be used, and our beauty and desirability are measured only by how closely we fit into their constructed reality.
As a whole, our culture is consumed by the way our bodies look and it is the images on television and social media that we try to emulate because we are conditioned to believe we are supposed to look, dress, and act like what is presented to us.
Body modification is on the rise"”implants, piercings, tattoos, extreme dieting"”as we try to fit into this construct delivered through television. In a sense we are kill...
Education:1999-2002 Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing, University of Florida. 1995-1999 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art, Valdosta State University.Selected Grants and Awards:ANA 35, Holter Museum of Art, Montana Jurors Award, 2007Visiting Artist, Accedemia dellarte, Arezzo, Italy, 2007Visiting Artist/ Juror, Valdosta State University Art Exhibition, 2007Juror, THEA Foundation Art Scholarships, 2007Faculty Summer Research Grant, Lyon College, 2006Faculty Summer Research Grant, Lyon College, 2005Visiting Artist/ Juror, Arkansas State University Annual Student Art Exhibition, 2005Gateway National Juried Exhibit, Farmington Museum, New Mexico. H.K. Holbein Award, 20048th Annual Cross Timbers Juried Exhibit, Murray State College, Oklahoma. Honorable Mention, 2004Faculty Summer Research Grant, Lyon College, 2004Valdosta National 2003, Juried Exhibition, University Gallery, Georgia. 2nd Place, 2003Albert K. Murray Grant, 2001Fine Arts Council Juried Exhibit, University Gallery, University of Florida, Honorable Mention, 2001Albert K. Murray Grant, 2000Selected Solo Exhibitions:2008Paintings from the Altered Series, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, Texas 2008Paintings from the Nodular Sclerosis Series, Gallery 204, Monmouth College, Monmouth...