Description
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a photo-based artist whose work extends into textile and word-based practice to examine the performance of conformity demanded of women. Using symbols drawn from ordinary, often overlooked (often personal) materials, I question the curated surface of ‘polite’ representation. I am drawn to symbols of mythmaking, particularly objects that quietly enforce propriety and containment. My current work represents a lived resistance, a hard-won, late-in-life refusal of imposed identities, leaving a suffocating marriage, embracing a queer identity, and rediscovering a self, eroded by inherited expectation.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Brooke Hummer is an artist, director, and photographer based in Chicago. Through a compassionate lens, she finds meaning under the surface of ordinary moments. Her commercial advertising work is known for an authentic, natural lifestyle approach. Her fine art work concerns the intersection of privilege, power, love, and beauty. Her current concentration uses images and artifacts to explore female identity and conformity in relation to patriarchal power.
© Brooke Hummer