As a trans woman boxer increasingly unwelcome in organized sports, I’m as interested in deconstructing the sweet science as I am devoted to it. As a painter, the same deconstructive reverence informs my relationship to the medium. Donna Haraway says in The Cyborg Manifesto, “Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously.” Animated by ambivalence, and drawing in part on psychoanalytic theory 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. Uncertainties remain unresolved as the uncanny meets the quotidian.
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, the UK, and Germany. She has previously taught at The Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, and currenlty teaches painting at Mason Gross School of The Arts.