Drawings of Campus Cuties

I have worked for several years with the Campus Cuties figurines. Campus Cuties, as named and produced by Marx Toys in the mid-twentieth century, are two series of six-inch figurines of women in contemporary clothing from that time.  In my art practice, Campus Cuties are transmutable vessels for the exploration of privilege, power, proximity to power, and the promulgation of misinformation.  Combining art history, pop culture, current events, historical discourse, philosophy, feminist theory, and my own lived experience, Campus Cuties have been exhibited as trophies, chocolates in boxes, action figures, drawings, 3D prints, and 3D printed assemblages. This particular iteration, the Remains of the Day, is the literal remains of wax sculptures exhibited in a solo exhibit at Corridor2122 earlier this year and is a reflection on the impermanence, hubris, and decline of empire. Currently, I am working on an animation using the Campus Cuties (in 2D form) and AI to critique AI and, once again, scrutinize the rise of culturally conditioned ignorance, solipsism, and its embrace of mis- and disinformation.

Rives BFK paper, graphite, gold leaf. 2016-ongoing.