Sky Become Shadow is about my first murder. It's based on my memory of stumbling upon baby birds that had fallen out of a tree onto my driveway. I was maybe four years old, and in the summer heat…
Throughout, I wanted to mingle motherhood, sexuality, humor, and the everyday, since we often act as if we have to relegate separate parts of ourselves to these things, which is a bit absurd.
I was thinking about how opposition and reflection are sometimes one in the same.
I started to speculate about illegal teleportation. I figured it would cause a border crisis in the United States and Europe. Governments would be even more protective. I imagined an island in the…
The landscape comes from an Aladdin book published by Disney—I'm drawn to its luscious qualities while disagreeing with what it depicts.
I started thinking about symbols of reproduction and the figure, especially the female figure, as among the earliest forms represented in art.
"Barack Obama said men needed to pull up their pants. In his plea, I heard my parents trying to make me assimilate into American culture."
"I engineered a human retrovirus that infects human cells with a gene to produce increased oxytocin."
"Things really slow down in the studio as I'm building layers of color and as I experience shifts in light across different days and times of day," Marley Freeman reflects on her process of painting.
Working alongside traditional craftsman, Leonardo Drew found new ways of working with natural materials.
