Artist Statement & Bio

BIO

Tiffany Hawkins (She/Her) is an Alabama-based artist, she earned her BFA in Painting and Drawing, and BA in Art History from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She is currently earning her MFA in Studio Art with concentrations in Painting & Ceramics from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My work centers on biomorphic forms to explore how their formal qualities can evoke the body through moments of growth, stagnation, and decay. Drawing from organic patterns that find resonance in both the human body and the earth’s body, I am illuminating the innate osmosis between them. In doing so, I am creating a practice that circulates the bodily to explore how it materializes, not only as the self, but as the natural world around it.

I pull formal references from seeds, nuts, shells, anatomy, bone, and driftwood. Sources that signify points within a life span: objects that protect before bloom, maintain life, or exist as traces of a life lived. In paint, the two-dimensionality of the surface allows for a deep consideration of line, color, and composition. Whereas, the three-dimensionality of ceramic allows for an extended exploration of form and surface-texture. Together, both modes of making are in conversation. In this conversation, I question the formal and structural osmosis between the human body and the earth body to foster understanding of the bodily as a form of being.