Leah Aron
Statement
In making art, I employ my body, primarily, as the focal point—a stage—and at different times add the use of sound, video, movement and commonplace found objects to create narratives. My performance pieces incorporate the themes that are integral to my work, and include sex, violence, ethnic identity and the onerous challenge of navigating gender norms and societal expectations. As an artist, I appropriate and thus take control of the pervasive media images and cultural messages that assault the senses and drive us to covet that which undermines our true potential.
Bio
Leah Aron is a performance artist living in New York City. She has a BFA from Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, where she studied at the Experimental Theatre Wing, and worked with Karen Finley on independent projects. She has logged many hours in the loving drunken arms of the New York neo-burlesque scene, performing as her alter ego Amber Alert.
Past works include: Brooklyn Bukkake (English Kills Art Gallery), Hotsy Totsy Burlesque (NY Int’l Fringe Festival), Day Job: American Peril "http://www.americanperil.com" , (Chashama 37th St.), Real Naturals, (ApexArt), Like, a Virgin (English Kills Art Gallery), SMS (English Kills Art Gallery).