Artist Statement
I am an American artist recognized for my large-scale, semi-abstract mixed media artworks characterized by vibrant colors.
Driven by a profound sense of urgency resulting from the rapid spread of anthropocentrism and the irreversible impact of climate change, technology, and harmful human behavior on all life, my art aims to shed light on the contemporary events and endangered lives deeply affected by these forces.
My artistic approach embraces diverse materials, techniques, vibrant colors, research, expression, and activism.
Through the utilization of vibrant colors, I infuse a sense of optimism and rejuvenate the mindset portrayed in my work, transforming it into a reflection of hope rather than a depiction of despair. By incorporating vivid hues, I aim to engage diverse sensibilities and resonate with individuals from all walks of life and across generations. This approach opens up my work to the minds of many, inviting them to experience and connect with it. In times of adversity, embracing playfulness becomes particularly crucial, adding a sense of lightness and joy to the artistic expression.
The shapes within my subjects often allude to urban development, where land divisions, mapping, and architecture encroach upon life, natural habitats, and small communities, leading to displacement and turmoil.
To distill and process the global chaos while creating breathing space within my work and within myself, I intricately draw out sections in a lace-like formation. This not only reveals the interplay between fragility and strength, mirroring the dichotomy inherent in our planet and our relationship with it, but also intersects symbolic culture by linking concepts, cultures, objects, and events. This emphasizes our interconnectedness across time and underscores the need for a balanced coexistence because we depend on one another.
As an artist, I bear a deep responsibility to document the world we live in today for future generations to glean insights from.
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We live in an anthropocentric world where humans seem to assume that all non-human life exists to serve them. A time where humanity’s impact is so profound that it has altered the course of this earth and all life on it. A planet where so much exists in chaos and perpetual conflict, filtered by technology, driven by consumption, and littered with environmental, political, economic, and socio-cultural chaos, all of our own making.
The stories in my work reveal deep truths that are difficult to view in a positive light. I try to vibrate with the narrative that humans, nature and technology can coexist in balance.
One prominent element that permeates my works is automatism, a technique that plays a pivotal role in the inception of each piece. It serves as the initial stepping stone, allowing ideas to gradually emerge and take shape as the artwork evolves, layer by layer.
We live in an anthropocentric world where humans seem to assume that all non-human life exists to serve them. A time where humanity’s impact is so profound that it has altered the course of this earth and all life on it. A planet where so much exists in chaos and perpetual conflict, filtered by technology, driven by consumption, and littered with environmental, political, economic, and socio-cultural chaos, all of our own making.
The stories in my work reveal deep truths that are difficult to view in a positive light. I try to vibrate with the narrative that humans, nature and technology can coexist in balance.
One prominent element that permeates my works is automatism, a technique that plays a pivotal role in the inception of each piece. It serves as the initial stepping stone, allowing ideas to gradually emerge and take shape as the artwork evolves, layer by layer.
Other sources:
Video on Antartic Melting
Most concerning Climate Change Issues
Reauthorize the End Trafficking of Wild Life Act
''And it's in that place of feeling the Earth's injuries, and feeling it with each other-that the alchemy emerges. It's in the cauldron of sharing our grief with our community, of gazing at it together and not looking away, that the heartbreak turns to hope. Hope, an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. We struggle between two contrasting views of humanity: one driving to a technological endgame of artificially enhanced humans, the other enabling a sustainable future arising from our intrinsic connectedness with each other and the natural world."
- Jeremy Lent
"I always know what I want but I never know what it looks like.
All I know is that when a painting is finished,
something I can't describe in words vibrates and activates my spirit." -Tina
