T 8:30-12:30
I am French Canadian and have been living in the US for the past seventeen years. I work in a variety of media: installation, printmaking, and artist's books. My work is unified not by medium but by concept. The main concept I examine is the gay experience. My motives are self-interested: I want to contribute to the creation of a space in time where I can communicate information and experience that challenge preconceptions about oneself and one's relation to others.
The construct of each project I'm involved corresponds to a restoration: an excavation of the truth, and unembarrassed anxiety about our memories. The goal is to transform the experience of a new definition with layers of images from which meaning can be revived.
I have been working with the book as poetic structure and carrier of meaning for many years. I received my Master of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin/Madison in May 1989. I have been teaching printmaking since 1990 and at San Francisco State University since 1996. My research has been mainly focused on photo-generated imagery and its intrinsic nature to appropriation. The work references my heritage which often goes unrecognized within an art critical context. I am intrigued by the manipulative aspect of the aesthetics of my work. Perhaps by mixing the aesthetic of a found object of the past with an intimated meaning, I ask the viewer to engage in a play of dichotomies. In the accumulation of vestiges, of parts, and of opposing experiences, the work conveys a feeling once possessed with a significance that is still evident and potent. Most of all, it communicates a meaning that is part of a shared history.
Education
M.F.A. University of Wisconsin, Madison
