Women Warriors
Some where along my path in life these women were brought into my life.
In my early 20’s at the beginning of my young art career I wrote a term paper I wrote about Artemesia Genteleschi. When I was in art school, my boyfriend played me Billie Holiday. I wanted to understand more about t Louis Bourgeois, or Eva Hess because I didn’t understand their art at all and wanted to know why they were so famous. Or Marlene Dumas and her dreamy, inky portraits which I was so influenced by her mark marking my won work or how Diane Arbus befriended her subjects rather than objectifies them. It has been a way to normalize the Kookoi characters that emerge of my depiction of her portrait and overflow out of my unconscious for example and end up in other works like in the work “pandemonium” in the collection of the same title.
