Artist Statement

Jennifer Garza-Cuen is an artist concerned with the complex weave of social structures, with groups and sub-groups and the continued impulse to categorize and define.

Working in a constructed-documentary style she addresses pre-conceived ideals, assumptions and stereotypes within particular areas of society. With a basis in the tradition of social commentary, Garza-Cuen is interested in posing questions or setting the scene in which questions will naturally form rather than coming to conclusions or providing answers.

Finally, as a former expatriate American, Garza-Cuen is interested in American themes: American mythology, empire, society, regions, sub-cultures and their norms and customs as well as the idea of 'American-ness' as it effects her own, continuing, self-defining process.