Dear Friends and Family,

I'm inviting you to attend art openings that include
some of my recent video art.

I hope you can attend!

Best,

LeeAnn


Saturday, 19 April 2008, 7-9pm
The University of Texas at Dallas's new Artist
Residency Center,
Central Trak. 800 Exposition Ave, Dallas, Tx, 75226
http://www.utdallas.edu/centraltrak/calendar.htm

Saturday, 3 May 2008, 6pm to Midnight.
Intersect @DMA, directed by Christi Neilson
http://www.intersectartcollective.com/
Dallas Museum of Art,
1717 N Harwood St
Dallas, TX 75201

Saturday, 14 June 2008 , 7-9pm
The University of Texas at Dallas's new Artist
Residency Center,
Central Trak. 800 Exposition Ave, Dallas, Tx, 75226
http://www.utdallas.edu/centraltrak/calendar.htm

My current work is an exploration of blurring
boundaries. The intertwining space between memory and
time, sensuality and fear, physical action and visual
image, are the places where I desire my work to
engage. Standing on the shoulders of Life is Art, Art
is Life, employing process, I observe my own life
experiences allowing the space and language to expand
via moving images in video, spoken word and physical
action in performance. Using simple elements of
imagery, I build layers of moments to pull the viewer
into a space I have experienced. This examining of
memories and layering of time questions the commonly
held notion of time and space.

By looking to artists such as Pippilotti Rist I have
found how the elements of humor with tragedy in a
narrative can move the viewer to places within
themselves that allow them to connect to the work in
ways that are new. Through the artist Doug Aitken, I
have found that simple daily acts are profound. The
element of the human activity is rich with memory and
place. The artist Joan Joanas has shown me how to
bravely present my work in an unexpected manner, thus
allowing the viewer to open and walk into new and
unexpected spaces within themselves.

The narrative expressed in my work seeks to find the
connection between sensuality and fear. This concept
drives much of my imagery. Lines being drawn by
someone you can’t see, hands coming toward you from
behind a veil. Faces flushed with colors that are not
natural moving boldly toward you, gestures of touch
that evoke sensuous, words spoken repetitively in a
monotone. These are some of the elements I use to
evoke feelings within the viewer of spaces within
themselves that hold memory.

As the viewer experiences their moments of memory a
new space and time is created as we together witness a
new-shared moment.