Sheila Winner

Bound to Fuck Up. Acrylic on board. 15 x 12 inches. 2012

Family, marriage, and children; ties that bind so tight I can’t breathe. Bound and gagged with invisible wrappings. To have my insides ripped open and trampled. No longer free to be myself, I must conform to the norm, and do what’s expected: keep my mouth shut and perpetuate the facade, be complacent, don’t put anything in writing, and white wash my thoughts because otherwise I’m bound to fuck up.

Joo Yeon Woo

Traveler’s Cup. Digital pigment print on archival paper. 25.5 x 39.4 inches. 2012

Traveler’s Cup embodies an artistic archive of my cultural displacement, and the attendant sense of instability and alienation. I collect images of my different surroundings and arranging them, per place, within the water glass that I drink from every day, in order to absorb that place visually and conceptually. These “portraits” of place convey my thoughts and feelings about the places where I construct the fluidity of identity, unfixed, open, and not subordinate to any specific society.

Mars Woodhill

With this work, I seek to examine the self-inflicted bonds and externally enforced confines that guide behavior. Though seemingly liberated from its restrictions, a border still exists: the canvas which contains it.