2011 series: DEFY

Defy is a series of plaster sculptures that studies the limits of the artist and the medium. She is an architect by trade, a mentor by choice, a student by necessity but always an artist at heart. The artist defied the rules of conventional wisdom, balancing multiple responsibilities all at once, defies what is acceptable and constantly challenges her own capacity to meet her own expectations. This series exercises all that and more as she manages life’s ordeal and offerings with mucho gusto.

The forms are inspired by contortionist poses that she dreams of doing but is physically incapable of, expressing it in proportions that test the structural limits of the wire supporting the plaster. In conjunction with this form experiment, she challenges what time will allow her to achieve while balancing a full time design job, teaching at a college, full time Master’s program, and multiple design projects on the side. Defying the reality of most working professionals and making sure her personal relationships are intact. Her defiance of rules and conventions in this mostly gentrified society is in itself art.

The colors and patterns are all part of her repertoire that moves from environments, to paintings, to everyday objects, defining a certain artistic style that is constant in all her work crossing a multitude of media. The finished work is defiant of style, of form, of the feeling it conjures when it casts shadows on the wall.