Growing up in the southern US, I quickly learned there was a certain expectation of how to "properly" be a woman: now, I challenge what that looks like using performed femininity as a tool to reveal not only gender disparities, but also to illuminate the relentless critique and politicization of the female body. Instead of hiding or denying femme aesthetics and female sexuality, my pieces embrace, highlight, and empower then, while acknowledging all the awkwardness, humor, and theatricality they entail.

The work in this exhibition is flirtatious, attention-seeking, and deceptively superficial. Toying with their own actualities and potential, they can speak - glittery and powerful - to politics in their own voice: excessive, unabashedly hyper-feminine, and most importantly, PINK.