STATEMENT
My work explores our ethical relationship to non-human animals, while employing critical tools and strategies of feminism. Through a process of appropriation and manipulation disparate “norms” in visual culture are re-contextualized in order to interrogate the established hierarchy of “the human” and challenge privileged assumptions regarding the status of non-human animals.
BIO
L.A. Watson is an interdisciplinary artist and activist who works in the field of critical animal studies. Watson holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has a BA in Gender and Women’s Studies from the University of Kentucky.
Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, including the Mary H. Dana Women Artist Series at Rutgers University and is in the permanent collection of The Animal Museum in Los Angeles, CA. She is a founding member of the artist coalition ArtAnimalAffect; a co-curator for the Uncooped exhibition and The Sexual Politics of Meat exhibition at The Animal Museum; a co-editor of the book, The Art of the Animal; and has recently contributed a chapter on the subject of “road kill” and the ethics of photographic framing to the book, Economies of Death: Economic logics of killable life and grievable death (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy).
Watson currently works in her studio on Elk Hill farm in Frankfort, Kentucky.
My work explores our ethical relationship to non-human animals, while employing critical tools and strategies of feminism. Through a process of appropriation and manipulation disparate “norms” in visual culture are re-contextualized in order to interrogate the established hierarchy of “the human” and challenge privileged assumptions regarding the status of non-human animals.
BIO
L.A. Watson is an interdisciplinary artist and activist who works in the field of critical animal studies. Watson holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has a BA in Gender and Women’s Studies from the University of Kentucky.
Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, including the Mary H. Dana Women Artist Series at Rutgers University and is in the permanent collection of The Animal Museum in Los Angeles, CA. She is a founding member of the artist coalition ArtAnimalAffect; a co-curator for the Uncooped exhibition and The Sexual Politics of Meat exhibition at The Animal Museum; a co-editor of the book, The Art of the Animal; and has recently contributed a chapter on the subject of “road kill” and the ethics of photographic framing to the book, Economies of Death: Economic logics of killable life and grievable death (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy).
Watson currently works in her studio on Elk Hill farm in Frankfort, Kentucky.
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