As a painter I’m as interested in deconstructing the medium as I am devoted to it. As a trans woman boxer increasingly unwelcome in organized sports, the same deconstructive reverence informs my relationship to the sweet science. Donna Haraway says in The Cyborg Manifesto, “Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously.” Drawing on ambivalence, my work aims to create a discourse where painting, bodies, desire, sport, history, politics, and the everyday are all material to be taken apart and put back together. Pears and satin bed sheets are balls and boxing shorts. Bruised and blushing. A fragmented body beckons through layers of protective wrapping. Symbols, xx and xy, clash with language and material, resulting in a draw. As the novel runs up against the quotidian, uncertainties remain unresolved.
Evie K Horton (b. 1990) lives in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA from Bard College (2019) and her BFA from Mason Gross School of The Arts (2012), she also studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich, Germany in the class of Norbert Prangenberg (2012). Her work has been shown in the United States and Germany. She has previously taught at The Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, and currenlty teaches at Mason Gross School of The Arts.