KISS GROWL SCREAM 2018

Around 1990, I bought a fur coat at a local Goodwill, cut it into pieces, and used mustache glue to attach the fur to my naked body. I poured red paint over my head and asked my then-roommate to photograph the performance as I acted out ideas of the “monstrous feminine” and the bestial nature historically attributed to female sexuality.

Nearly thirty years later, I rediscovered those photographs and used them as the starting point for a series of paintings. Experimenting with new ways of making marks, I returned to that earlier performance, reworking fragments of gendered narratives—once stuck haphazardly to my body, now pulled apart and stitched back together through painting.