Artist Statement

My main influences in my artistic practice are the writings of Walter Benjamin, and the writings/photographs of Allan Sekula. Both stress the importance of the inherent incompleteness of the image, and more importantly, how that incompleteness lends itself to co-option. If an image is an incomplete gesture, what are we supposed to do with it? My response is to orient my work not in favor of completing the gesture, but allowing the audience to place themselves within the work, to be confronted by it.

Contact: abryan3@artic.edu