Artist Statements from Threewalls:

Artist Statements can look very different from one another. I am still trying to figure out my own one-paragraph statement...


Aay PrestonMyint is an artist, printmaker, and educator based in Chicago, IL, and has exhibited nationally in San Francisco, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Memphis, and New York. He loves pie, but is less partial to cake, and similarly enjoys the beach, but not the ocean. He spends most of the day thinking about things like Futurity, Slime, Pageantry, Exploring the Possibility of Radicalizing Contemporary Queer Night Life, Body Hair, Doubt, the Problematics of Aestheticizing Community, Labor vs. Value vs. Reward, and "Projects" vs. "Objects". In addition to his own work in interdisciplinary media, he does collaborative programming with No Coast and Chances Dances, and edits an online and print journal called Monsters and Dust. He might send you a mixtape sometime if you ask nice.


A native of Southern California, Marissa Lee Benedict is a sculptor, researcher, writer, explorer, teacher, student and avid amateur of many fields and disciplines (coming from the French “lover of”). Motivated by a sense of critical wonder, Benedict’s practice is an ongoing investigation the complex – and ever evolving – relationship between humans and the material world. Whether communicating via sculpture, installation, performance, video or the written word – or a hybridization thereof – she seek to articulate Jane Bennett’s philosophy of “vibrant matter”, fore-fronting the “force of materiality” to create both a physical and intellectual understanding of networked interconnectivity. Benedict is interested in participating in processes which reinvest material with agency; processes which allow equal space for planned human action and uncontrollable biological, chemical and physical reaction.

Cauleen Smith (born 1967) is a filmmaker whose work reflects upon the everyday possibilities of the black imagination. Smith’s films have been featured in group exhibitions at the Houston Contemporary Art Museum; the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin; and the New Museum, New York. Beginning in 1994, she wrote, directed, and produced her first narrative feature film, Drylongso (1998), which was selected for the American Spectrum of Sundance Film Festival, and won best feature film at both the Urbanworld Film Festival and the Los Angeles Pan-African Film Festival Smith earned an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles.