2022
BLUR is a series of acrylic on canvas paintings, blurring the lines with drips and intersecting patterns, shapes, and edges. Gray is a dominant color in the work, representing neutrality and allowing the viewer to engage with the piece without being drawn into commercial stereotypes of the feminine.
acrylic on canvas, 69 x 120
Keenly aware of how much the outside world has dictated our choices. She is a mother, a rebel, a brut, and a temptress; her body is an expression of her genetics but does not define her. She liberates herself from old ideas; she releases herself from needing to find new ones. She declares separation from all outside governing parties to determine her worth and responsibilities. She is willing to walk alone, knowing she is never alone. She is a sister amongst many.
acrylic on canvas, 54 x 50
acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48
acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48
acrylic on canvas, 40 x 60
Over time, her environment has informed what she should look like, act like, and want. At the time of her becoming, she discovers she must unravel, pick apart, and separate her relationship with the natural world from everything else that has led her astray.
One of the most challenging paintings I’ve done recently. This puzzle took almost two years to solve.
Inspired by Nicole Weaver and Kim Stewart
acrylic on canvas, 40 x 60
acrylic on canvas, 40 x 60
In Williams Collection
acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36
In Collection
Transitioning from being a child to being an adult. It continues through the teenage years of life. The specific age at which this transition takes place varies between societies, as does the nature of the change. – Wikipedia
acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48
in Brister Collection
As mothers, women are often the first step in a child’s mental health care, making her a critical partner in the mental health of future generations. The figure crouches to hold herself, in a moment of solitude, she seeks to restore her own emotional and spiritual center amidst the chaos surrounding her. The background is patched together, recognizing the deep work women must do within, to care for themselves and others.
Inspired by a photograph by Dana Divird Stevens of Carolyn Crist Wright
acrylic on canvas, 42 x 42
Out of all the personality traits that have been studied, introversion / extroversion is one of the most strongly hereditary ones. Being introverted may create additional challenges for girls at a time when they are most vulnerable.
acrylic on canvas, 12 x 36
In L’Esperance Collection
acrylic on canvas, 36 x 7
Inspired by Gabi Markham
acrylic on canvas, 24 x 36
In Kohlmeister Collection
Navigating the world with blind ambition, struggling for self-esteem that is challenged by other girls her age.
acrylic on canvas, 48 x 36″, 2020
In Brister Collection
Examining the shame that she held at an early age and remembering the wisdom she once had but ignored. She reimagines what was once shame, is now empowered knowledge.
acrylic on canvas, 36 x 24″, 2020
In Fuller Collection
Experiencing a daughter’s adolescence will awake memories, causing a deep reflection on how childhood shapes us as women, and the role vulnerability plays in our development. An intense relationship between drawing a daughter close and letting her go, allowing her to have her own becoming. Exhibited in Crocker Kingsley 2020
acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24
In Read Collection
acrylic, thread, cotton yarn on cardboard with video, 24 x 48
In Collection
A meditation on how pain is stored in the female body. With phrases like I am afraid to be vulnerable, I am not lovable, and childhood fear taught me not to trust. Phrases were written on each disc, and used to create the breast element in the work. Within the work, there are references to menses as independence and interdependence, and the female body as being in service.
Video that accompanies the < painting
acrylic on canvas, 55 x 55
in Boudreaux Collection
Remembering feelings of profound loss as the adult world begins pushing itself at her while she is still in the fog of her juvenescence.
acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16
In Marlin Collection
acrylic on canvas, 24 x 18
In Reilly Collection
acrylic on canvas
in Pettengill Collection
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