KISS GROWL SCREAM: About

Around 1990, I bought a fur coat from the local goodwill. I cut it up into small pieces and used mustache glue to paste it to my naked body. I poured red paint over my head and directed my then roommate to photograph the whole process/performance of me acting out ‘the monstrous feminine’ & ‘the bestial notions of female sexuality’. I rediscovered the photographs almost 30 years later and made these paintings. They’re a combination of my trying out new ways of mark making with pieces of gendered narratives stuck haphazardly to my body and stitched back together.