Biography
The use of hair as a tool of gender and social identification is a major element of my drawings, prints, and paintings. As a means of ornamentation, hair styling and hair coloring, offer an individual numerous identification opportunities with single or multiple social groups. The adornment of the head with wigs, extensions, and accessories, is one of the oldest human practices, but in our current culture it has become a privilege reserved mostly for women. In the works I create this constriction is removed and the opportunity is reintroduced as a pleasure that both sexes might endorse. Even the minotaurs utilized in my works will at times be crowned with wigs or hairstyles that signify a cultural cross gender identification. In a recent series of drawings, the focus on coiffure lead to the execution color pencil works that document the changes to the back of my hair from 2007-2009. These highly detailed drawings are a reflection on my own personal identification with an ideal of beauty and fashion that does not correlate with the normal regiment of gender rules and definitions.
