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| Karen Yama's work considers the construction of the social self through diverse photographic imagery. Chop Shop Dragster depicts miniature sculptures built from plastic car model kits. Model parts, carefully ordered in mass-produced packages, work as metaphors for the constituents of social identities. Set in a miniature simulated gallery constructed by the artist, the self is presented as artificial, styled for a world which asks that we be more palatable than real. |  |
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In Even the Job is an Artificial Limb, (Fuzz Kits '96), both police officers and actors in the role of police are stalked by the photographer from behind, cropped down to buttocks by the camera. While the officers' guns and billy clubs represent the power of the state, the images suggest that these policeman are themselves policed. Strapped into regulation belts, their personas can only be surmised.
Karen Yama
received an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA from the
University of California, Davis. Her work has been exhibited at Art in
General and Artists Space, NYC. She has been granted residencies at The
MacDowell Colony, Yaddo Corporation, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown,
and the Marie Sharpe Walsh Foundation, NYC. |
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