ARTIST STATEMENT
By trying to make small statements concerning my view of America as an armed out of control consumer, I want museum goers, gallery hoppers, and people off the street to look at my work—and ask questions. To combat the out of control consumption culture I live in, my paintings are constructed out of reused materials: the thrown out and discarded. By using symbols of hip hop culture in my paintings, I explore how mainly white Americans consume a Black American art form. In my work that focus on the USA’s consumption of the world’s resources through purchase, intimidation, and armed force, I hope to encourage an exchange of views and open up conversations about ‘America as consumer’ and the military actions of my country.  My work is concerned with the issues of consumption, the end results and consequences of America’s quest for more.     

CHARLES SIEGFRIED

EDUCATION

2007 – MFA Painting and Drawing, Washington State University, Pullman, WA

2002 – BS, in Arts and Letters, Portland State University, Portland, OR (Summa cum laude) 

1999 – Associate of Science, Portland Community College, Portland, OR  

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2007 – MFA Thesis Show, WSU Museum of Art, Pullman, WA

2007 – Exchange Show, University of Idaho, Ridenbaugh Gallery, Moscow, ID

2007 – ASU Invitational, Gallery III, Washington State University, Pullman, WA

2006 – First Year Graduate Exhibition, Gallery II, Washington State University, Pullman, WA

2006 – Exchange Show, University of Idaho, Ridenbaugh Gallery, Moscow, ID

2003 – Portraits and Travel, Littman Gallery, Portland, OR

2003 – Art Ball, LaMuse, Portland, OR

2000 – Paper Products, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR