KEARIENE MUIZZ

ART AS ARTIFACT | Established between Paris and Los Angeles, Keariene Muizz is a being who needs proof. Evaluating cultural objects through the lens of the psychoanalytic process. The vulnerable and exposed architectural landscape of Paris is the site for her work. She considers the sculptures as the secret citizens of Paris. The methods of her systematic investigation occurs when physically installed throughout the arrondissements where she experiments with the psychological interplay of stimulus and subconscious imagined affects of iconography. Her artistic practice is built on a foundation of research that was conducted at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Approved for a high-level research permit and granted access to the private areas of the library, where she consumed all twenty four volumes collectively known as The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud.  

Upon her return to California, this research was later recognized by the American Psychoanalytic Association (2004), the organization assigned Dr. Susan L. Donner as a mentor, a psychoanalyst educated at Harvard.  

Keariene Muizz attended La Sorbonne and holds an Interdisciplinary B.A. from California State Long Beach in Art & Analysis, combining art, psychology and computer science. Post educational studies were also conducted informally in nude drawing at the Otis College of Art & Design under Professor Laddie John Dill. 

STONES HAVE VOICES | An entire language of feeling and memory has been repressed beneath rock. Hand-crafted tongues hold still, frozen for generations, yearning to speak their secrets -to discuss what they have witnessed but can not declare. 

I am more than an artist. I am an interpreter for the unvoiced. I define “stone” as abstract flesh and do not restrict the classification to minerals. Stones can be statues. Stones can be children. Every “stone” reveals itself as a hardened structure housing confined significance.

Stones have voices. An entire language of feeling and memory has been repressed beneath rock. Hand-crafted tongues hold still, frozen for centuries, yearning to speak -to discuss what they have witnessed but can not declare.

My passion obligates me to study these stones; identify their unvoiced desires, question the weight of their past -acknowledge the pressure of being forced to hold a single stance eternally. I clarify their personal history, depict details of loose emotional connections, measure, affirm and reconcile their positions. I translate the internal universe restricted within stone, to make the subjects understandable by viewers who have only stood outside with judgement and not from within with consideration; reconditioning a race of people who stare at surfaces objectively as an audience, but never dared to approach the more private inner atmosphere of stone. 

I sign each painting with two letters KZ -the first letter of my first name and the last letter of my last name because whenever I approach the canvas I am giving the totality of myself, from beginning to end.