ARTWORK > LOVESEAT

LOVESEAT (2009-11) is an installation that consists of a tiny couch for two and a collection of found, decorative representations of bird pairs. Though birds are sometimes the ultimate symbol for freedom, the birds pictured in our homes are rarely imagined in flight. Instead, they rest on limbs or in nests, appearing to be happily grounded with their faithful companions.

Images like these are seemingly innocent: so common in our interiors that they go unnoticed. By collecting and painting cages into these scenes, I hope to complicate their meaning and draw attention to the restrictive attitudes toward gender and sexual conventions that they reinforce.

Untitled Pair 2 (Gainesville, FL)
acrylic and oil on found object
10" height
2009
Loveseat
acrylic and oil on found objects with loveseat
80" x 10' x 32"
Untitled Pair 4 (Gainesville's Habitat)
oil on found object
20" x 14"
2009
Untitled Pair 1 (Newberry, FL)
acrylic on found object
16" x 10"
2009
Untitled Pair 7
oil on found, framed print
10" x 8"
2009
Untitled Pair 5
oil on found, framed print
10" x 8"
2009
Untitled Pair 6 (Waldo Flea Market)
acrylic and oil on found object
24" x 18"
2009
Untitled Pair 15 (Cleveland, Tennessee)
oil on found painting
16" x 12"
2010
Untitled Pair 13 (Cleveland, TN $3)
oil on found object
30" x 30"
2010
Untitled Pair 11(Cleveland, TN)
acrylic on found object
10" x 8"
2009

This installation was shown at Pending, a three-person show at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, TN in 2009. Selections of the piece have been shown individually in a variety of group shows since then.