Kat Chamberlin, "I Would Prefer Not to (Nap)"

Description

Kat Chamberlin, "I Would Prefer Not to (Nap)"
16 x 16 inches
Graphite on paper, tinted plexiglass

Artist Bio: Kat Chamberlin (b. 1981, Amsterdam, NL) lives and works in Brooklyn. She received her MFA in Performance Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009 and is a recipient of the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship and the Toby Devan Lewis Award. Her installations, sculptures, and films have been presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and numerous alternative spaces. Chamberlin’s films have screened at international festivals including the Seoul International New Media Festival (NEMAF), Antimatter Film Festival in Canada, and the Chicago Underground Film Festival. Her work often combines performance, film, and sculpture to explore the tensions between intimacy and power.

Artist Statement: The drawing was made in response to a series of sculptures and films that I was making at the time on the subject of cheerleaders and femininity on Staten Island. I worked with the cheerleaders to choreograph movements on imaginary objects that might be built for their particular sport. Cheerleading has always been a curious sport for me both for its physical demand, but also its culturally erotic undertones.