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Arm Armature #13 (green and grey, hooked)
glazed ceramic, photograph on aluminum, wood and paint
28.5 x 32.5 x 54 inches
2016
Arm Armature
Installation View, NURTRUEart, Brooklyn, NY
October 21 - November 20, 2016
Arm Armature #5 (grey, mirroring)
glazed ceramic, photographs on aluminum, wood and paint
32 x 27.5 x 53.75 inches
2016
Arm Armature #9 (blue, arm on arm)
glazed ceramic, photograph on aluminum, wood and paint
33.75 x 16 x 53 inches
2016
Arm Armature #9 and #11
glazed ceramic, photographs on aluminum, wood and paint
2016
Arm Armature #6 (beige, with cell reflection)
glazed ceramic, photographs on aluminum, wood and paint
27 x 14 x 19.5 inches
2016
Arm Armature #6 (beige, with cell reflection)
glazed ceramic, photographs on aluminum, wood and paint
27 x 14 x 19.5 inches
2016
Arm Armature #12 (blue with grey drip)
glazed ceramic, photographs on aluminum, wood and paint
22 x 12 x 16 inches
2016
Arm Armature #12 (blue with grey drip)
glazed ceramic, photographs on aluminum, wood and paint
22 x 12 x 16 inches
2016
Arm Armature #7 (green, with squares)
glazed ceramic, photos printed on aluminum, wood and paint
39.5 x 18.5 x 53 inches
2016
Arm Armature #7 (green, with squares)
glazed ceramic, photos printed on aluminum, wood and paint
39.5 x 18.5 x 53 inches
2016
Arm Armature #8 (blue, extended wrist)
glazed ceramic, photograph on aluminum, wood and paint
24 x 26 x 54 inches
2016
Arm Armatures
glazed ceramic, c-prints, wood
2016
Arm Armature #2
glazed ceramic, c-prints, wood
21.5 x 13.5 x 30 inches
2016
Arm Armature #3 (interior view)
glazed ceramic, c-prints, wood
21.5 x 13.5 x 26 inches
2016
Arm Armature #3 (exterior view)
c-print on aluminum
13 x 21 inches
2016
Arm Armature #4
glazed ceramic, c-print, wood
21.5 x 13.5 x 22 inches
2016

Arm Armature
NURTRUEart, Brooklyn, NY
October 21 - November 20, 2016

For years I stared at, photographed, and researched all sorts of armatures – from posing stands used in early portrait photography to hold subjects still for long exposures, to museum armatures that display ancient fragments. I am jealous of what these armatures know about touch: they cradle our most precious sculptures, caressing them tenderly on their vulnerable cracked surfaces. I am in awe of their power: they fixed bodies in position for impossible-to-hold durations to create the first magically instantaneous portraits.

Arm Armature emerged out of this obsession: I recreate and reimagine the armatures I admire in clay; make photographs of my arms behaving like and learning from the armatures; and I stage a dialogue between my sculptures and photographs. To house this dialogue, I create structures that I think of as “furniture-pedestals” - hybrids between museum pedestals that elevate sculptural fragments and household vanities where women use their hands and arms to prepare their faces to look beautiful. Display is a key interest of mine in this work (as it is the key reason that armatures exist in the first place): I use the conventions of studio photography, conventions shared by advertising and ancient sculpture documentation; I play with color to make things stand out or blend in; I tease out the idea of the front and back, having a “good and bad side”. I am interested in engaging seriously and playfully with the posturing, transformation and loss that armatures and display tactics represent.