About
Heather Layton
biography
I’m an interdisciplinary artist based in Southern California, whose work bridges photography, performance, and painting. I have degrees in performing arts, and gender studies from UC Santa Barbara, as well as a graduate degree in visual studies from San Francisco State. My multi-media photographs have been exhibited both nationally and internationally.
Statement
I am primarily interested in the representation of the body, and its polymorphic qualities. How can the body both attract and repel, provoke joy and horror, and be distinct and indistinct? To explore these questions aesthetically, my work reconfigures the body in order to interrogate relations between gender, alienation, sexuality, and repression. The ways in which normativity disavows corporeal complexities are the foci of my work.
