ARTIST STATEMENT
I document people and places: not as a traditional documentarian, but as portraits painted with film or video. I am most interested in the working person: street vendors, markets, artisans, artists or collectors of art. I am intrigued with visual double entendres, in accepting accidents like light leaks or floods that transform negatives into positives. My work is in where I am and who I meet along the way. Of the connections we make. Of how women see themselves. Of how everything changes. This new work explores the murkiness of our current political situation in Washington, DC.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
I received my MFA in 1984 from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and have exhibited film/video/photo work in and around the midwest. In Chicago at Chicago Filmmakers, INTUIT, The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art; Randolph Street Gallery; Irish American Heritage Center; Chicago Cultural Center; the Film Center; Women in the Director’s Chair Chair; Guild Complex; Briar Street Theater; as well as in New York, San Francisco, France, Germany, Mexico and Switzerland.
© Kapra Fleming