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My work is grounded in an ongoing investigation of unconscious internalization of gender/race/class stereotypes and their impact on hierarchies of power within American culture. The work is cross media--spanning photography, film, video, sound, and installation art to written and spoken language--both critical and poetic. Much of the work is site specific, responding to architecture or locating the space within the geographic location. An investigation of public and private space is crucial to the work. The public aspect is often represented by popular culture, media images, and vernacular language; the private is represented as the domestic, internal life, or private correspondence. A considered relationship with ideas surrounding technology is important to my research, whether manifested in a refusal of seamless technique, in using consumer technologies to formally mimic psychological functioning, or in understanding how technology affects information and ingestion of ideas. The body--often effaced or made ‘hyper’ by technology or the digital landscape--is a prime focus. Whether cyber strength or intellect, technology attempts to make the body more than it is--this in a context where imaging systems make reality more real than it could ever be.”S.O.

1967	born
1991	B.F.A. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1994	M.F.A. University of Southern California, Los Angeles
	Independent artist; lives in Los Angeles, CA