America
America is a Hollywood stuntwoman, filmmaker, stunt coordinator, voice over actor, director, and the mom of a toddler. Though her schedule is different every day, and the overlap between work and family life can be grueling, she thrives on the chaos. "Everything is on fire, but I got it," she says.
She's also the Co-President & Founder of The Chimaera Project, a nonprofit that supports and advocates for female-identifying filmmakers in an industry that notoriously under-represents women—consider that in the top 250 grossing films of 2017, only 11% of directors and 4% of cinematographers were women.
In the sculpture of her hours, heavy gold and black forms represent America’s paid labor hours and less-weighty silver and black forms represent her unpaid labor hours. Spaces in the sequence represent hours when America was not working, either at her job, her nonprofit, or at home.
America, 2019, Hydrocal plaster, enamel, latex, 96 x 160 x 6 inches (as installed at New Museum Los Gatos; variable)
America, 2019, Archival pigment print, 36 x 24 inches, Edition of 3
America, 2019, Hydrocal plaster, enamel, latex, 40 x 360 x 6 inches (as installed)
America, detail