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Lacey Lynn Tink

Studio Resident (2023-2025)

Fiber, Installation, Mixed Media, Multimedia, Painting, Stop-Motion
Statement of Work

My work is a study of myself; I process my reality and perceptions through a fantastical, unsettling, and yet familiar world. Quiet observation has always been an integral part of my art practice and a tenet of my identity as an autistic woman. Objectifying myself and my experiences, I subversively employ the male gaze as a means of critique and authority. I dwell a lot on the relationship between looking as a consumption and looking as a witness. Whether occupying a painting, drawing, embroidery, sculpture—or more likely, some combination—the figures within my work anticipate the gaze of the viewer. There has lately been an exciting shift in my practice to encompass not just the body, but the spaces it and self occupy. Exploring visual analogies between space and body continue to captivate me and I'm fixated on how an image could construct a complex, unfolding space a viewer must visually navigate through, but not necessarily out of.

As an observational image-maker fascinated by the thought that illusion can function as an artifact of truth, I seek to occupy a space visually where illusion and trickery sometimes become synonymous. The stage of a magic show is set for the illusionist—maker of magic and director of perceptions. If observed truth or reality is the origin of myself and my studio practice, then my artworks are fantastical replicas of and commentaries on everyday magic.

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