About

Megan recently graduated from Flagler College as a BFA candidate and currently lives in Naples, FL.

Artist Statement

My video performances feature glistening narrative vignettes of my idealized personas. Through these personas, I navigate my problematic habit of trying to please my loved ones [mostly the men] in my life, by conforming to internalized ideas and external influences on how I should present myself and act as a cis woman. While I stress my growing frustrations and vulnerabilities through the subtle glitching of my characters, I acknowledge this groomed desire to fit within these hyper-feminine molds that have been crafted both by myself and by the figures around me.

Influenced by old Hollywood, my characters live in twinkling worlds that are made up of thrifted materials, elaborately coiffed wigs, and simple fabric backgrounds. I exist to make and break eye contact with the camera, to dance like I know what I am doing, and to own Hollywood tropes, as if I invented them. These actions are influenced by my need to hyperbolize myself, and to give my negotiations with hyper femininity a private and absurd theater.

Artist Statement Bullet Points for Those Who Hate Reading Long, Boring Text

• the invited voyeur

• fabricated nosalgia

• hyper femininity

• internal male gaze + OG male gaze

• repetitive behavior = ritualistic & comforting?

  OR

• repetitive behavior = self harm?

• struggle of living to please those who may not deserve it

• how much of me is actually me?

• how much of myself is left after the effects of heavy-handed, male influences are gone?

• it’s the mental illness, luv

CV

2019: Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, long time listener, first time caller, solo exhibition, December 2019.

2018: Locust Projects, curated exhibition, Saint Cities, “Bitch, I am the Pope,” Miami, FL, 2018.