April 14-17
Daddy, I Miss You
2021
Nickle-plated ball chain, automotive enamel, plywood, 9' x 12' x 10'6"
Queer and Now
2021
Offset print on paper, 33" x 22.75"
Artist Statement
I wish my PrEP medication made me feel like I was taking part in something, but so far it has only softened my bowels.
This is not the fire in my belly I had anticipated.
My work is an investigation of Queer radicalism, presence, absence and ecstasy. From the gym to the showers, from the dancefloor to the bedroom, I examine the physical conditions of relational identity and sexuality construction. Inspired by politically motivated 1990s abstraction responding to the AIDS epidemic, my work looks to reclaim the critical capacity of the queer minimalist gesture in a time of gay pragmatism, assimilation and continued alienation. I am inspired by the materials and conditions of queer transgression which inform my sculpture and installations. Composed of leather, latex, iron and steel, my sculptures slip between recognizable materials of kink, industry and sport to address the oscillating power dynamics of gender, masculinities and BDSM.
A child of the ‘90s, I am part of a queer generation that came of age in the wake of tragedy. José Esteban Muñoz’s theory of queer futurity offers a political potential of remembering the past. My work aims to perform within the “modality of ecstatic time”; to radicalize queerness through the reanimation of spaces and experiences of the past for the critical reimagining of the future.