Artist Statement
Still from Honeybee Collectives; image by Andrea McMurray
I see art as relational, and I use documentary and experimental strategies to tell personal stories, celebrate creative resistance, and contribute to cultural conversations. I prioritize collaboration, and I often work with repurposed materials, reframing the discarded as a creative challenge and a playful political intervention.
My work includes media art, painting, social practice, and interactive installations. It is grounded in a curiosity about people and our interactions with environments, and it draws on a background in documentary radio as well as fine arts. I understand part of my role as an artist as helping to expand cultural dialogs and build communities. I am reflexive about my perspective, and I do my best to ensure that my artistic choices respect subjects’ intents by building collaborative relationships with them and reflecting my work back to these storytellers.
Commitments to intersectional feminism and social and environmental justice influence both the themes of my work and the ways I create. Process is as important to me as product. I trust my intuition along with my intellect, and I move between conceptual and spontaneous ways of working. I enjoy using multiple artistic approaches to research and articulate a subject, and I find interactive, multimedia art ideal for engaging participant-observers.
My work includes media art, painting, social practice, and interactive installations. It is grounded in a curiosity about people and our interactions with environments, and it draws on a background in documentary radio as well as fine arts. I understand part of my role as an artist as helping to expand cultural dialogs and build communities. I am reflexive about my perspective, and I do my best to ensure that my artistic choices respect subjects’ intents by building collaborative relationships with them and reflecting my work back to these storytellers.
Commitments to intersectional feminism and social and environmental justice influence both the themes of my work and the ways I create. Process is as important to me as product. I trust my intuition along with my intellect, and I move between conceptual and spontaneous ways of working. I enjoy using multiple artistic approaches to research and articulate a subject, and I find interactive, multimedia art ideal for engaging participant-observers.