Conceptual Art

This last section of my portfolio, conceptual art, is home to the ideas I love that are mostly one-offs. It is rebel me, who can’t and won’t fit into the common dictum: just make 10 pieces that look similar and then do it again so the collectors feel comfortable with the familiar.

I realized I’ve been practicing art since the late ‘80s when I gave 37 hugs to 37 strangers on my 37th birthday, in New York City. Yes, that was performance art. I was also a ballerina, though I didn’t start studying until I was 22, breaking every rule of ballet. Or it meant joining “Baring Witness” — a protest for peace with about 100 other women who posed nude outside all over the world, forming words and shapes with our collective bodies.

I have a few samples below and you can also find more in my art blog. I also think of my self-portraits and poetry project as very much conceptual art. (That’s an external link.)