GUIDELINES

ARTIST STATEMENTS

Paragraph 1: Introduction and summary (possible format)

Answer the following questions in 3-5 sentences:

-What content/phenomenon/principle/politics drives your work?

-What field(s) and/or discipline(s) do you see your practice aligned with?

-What medium or mediums are employed in your practice?

-What message, if any, would you like your work to communicate to the viewer? (This message could be political, cultural, personal, etc.)

Paragraph 2: Specific details of particular works that expand and build on what you describe in Paragraph 1

-Describe 2-4 of your recent works (1-2 sentences per work) in the context of how this work fits into your general area/discipline of interest

-Describe the context (gallery, film festival, furniture show, public park, bar?) that best fits your work, particularly if you work in a non-gallery context.

-If you have been drawn to your medium for any political/personal/cultural reasons, define those. For example, if your work is primarily shown online try to describe why you are drawn to the Internet as exhibition space.

Paragraph 3: Current projects in progress and future work

-Describe your current work in progress and how it expands the previous body of work. Try to describe this work in 2-3 sentences.

-If you see your work developing in a different or more focused direction in the future describe in detail that transformation or change.