When a siren goes off midday in Ohakune — a long, keening wail of an old
school air raid siren, the kind you hear in films about the Battle of Britain, to be exact — I walk into a hotel and ask a clerk if that's something I should be worried about.
Recent canvases (now on view at Jack Shainman Gallery's The
School in Kinderhook, New York) embedded with acoustic foam respond to research into violent sounds, such as the
air raid siren she heard as a child during the Gulf War; while others adopt poses from a U.S. military pamphlet filled with pictograms around scenarios involving hostages, smuggling, and weapon identification.