For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. And if it doesn't, you're letting the side down. Throwing this stumbling block in the way of female artists is counterintuitive.
We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.
Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.
It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation.
I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman. Is it a good art piece or a bad art piece? Of course, if you're female, you're maybe dealing with different issues.
I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in the first place.
My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.
I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me.
Art is feminine.