Artist Statement. Allston Skirt Gallery at NADA Art Fair, Miami Beach, 2004

This is a small tribute to twelve women of the sixties who kept me sane during my formative years, and who inspired me in some positive way or another, as much as one can a preteen girl growing up in Queens, NY. These giclee prints were created using found images that I altered pretty extensively with both Photoshop and Illustrator software. They were not created by using a one-click prescribed key, such as the posterize function, for example. I have been working with a technique that involves multiple manipulations, and a constant shifting between actual pixel size and extreme magnification, and hopscotching between Photoshop and Illustrator. Working in this medium interests me because of its endless manipulations and, and because it has become so widespread as a visual language. Most of the images that we view today are pixilated, to the point that most people take it for granted. It fascinates me how, to truly understand how a digital image appears the way it does, one really has to view it in its digital format at 1600% of its actual size. That’s where the magic reveals itself, and that’s the best way to appreciate the complexity of this drawing process. Pixilation is the new pointillism, and like its predecessor, this digital art can be both highly abstract and representational at the same time.