Bea Hurd is a Salt Lake City, Utah based artist. She graduated from the University of Utah with a major in Sculpture Intermedia and currently works as a visual arts teacher at West Jordan High School. She has shown art at the Finch Lane Gallery, Nox Contemporary, Salt Lake City Library, and is working on an upcoming solo show at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. She is currently making a feature length lesbian horror film. She plans to pursue an MFA in the near future and work towards becoming a sculpture professor. Her practice is interdisciplinary and mostly consists of wearable soft sculptures and experimental films.
Artist Statement
I take objects of personal fascination and bring them into an unconventional mode to answer what confuses me about my identity. Creating objects through repurposing everyday materials, I create a facade of functionality and interaction. Whether that be through tactility or a visceral response, it is not the actual interaction that concerns me, but the idea of interaction. I take objects that speak of mundanity and juxtapose them with an unhinged and sensualized tone. My work oscillates around concepts of gender positioning and sexuality. I aim to explore topics of feminism and womanhood specifically through materiality and how my own environment effects and influences such. I focus my practice around synthetic, mass-produced, consumer materials. I find that the topics I concentrate on do not manifest themselves organically, they are socially and culturally taught to me, and as such, these topics call for materials that mimic their inorganic nature.
Links
http://beahurd.com
http://instagram.com/beayond_art
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Categories: Installation | Multi-media | Sculpture | Utah Artists - H
