PAINTING - D RAWING - INSTALLATION - PERFORMANCE - W RITING

My work is currently in transition as I continue to mold a new body of work which incorporates all of the various techniques I have studied in my practice through painting, drawing, installation work, and performances.

My interests have always fallen on finding ways to identify, recreate, and isolate the essence of our human experience - emotions that bring us to our knees, the moments of pause in chaotic environments, the roles we settle into in various stages of our lives, our connections and interactions with each other.

My current challenge has been to push this understanding by also finding ways to integrate the nuances of our societal pressures - the weight of capitalism and how it touches our culture, our media influences, the perpetual social expectation of our roles in society based on our appearance and status.

In order to achieve this body of work, I have been collaborating with the general public through social media. I find this method of research to also inform the performance aspect of my interests.

Painting

My practice includes the analysis of emotion through the stages of my life thus far as well as what they might be in the future. I note instances of my past and potential future through scenes I find within my daily life. By interpreting these references into vivid paintings, I’m able to process an instant of intrigue - a social norm, a custom, a nostalgic idea - and dissect it into color and atmosphere for a new idea.

As I move away from the solitary portrait, I play with perspective and rhythm within the scenery of my work to find the spaces I can start to hide the nuance of the aforementioned dissected information.

Mock Resin is a medium I had been experimenting with in the past as a way to create texture, a sense of decay and nostalgia. It is difficult to control and rather unpredictable.

Drawing

My recent drawings have been a collaboration with the public as I streamed my process Live on social media. This was research in the current culture as I reached out to my audience for requests and communed with them on various matters concerning the state of the world today. This influenced my color choices, the textures, the background patterns and informed my ventures into the mysterious nuance of media influences.

Installation

Prism

Of shame, guilt, or elation.
Of overwhelm, heartbreak, or humiliation.
Of wonder, pride, or thrill.
Keep the evolution going, still.

Each of us are prisms with the power of refracting our inner Selves. It isn’t always a conscious decision, but we separate our Selves to cope with our surroundings.

In the history of our lives we will notice events repeat themselves. We may find ourselves continuously responding to these similar events in identical ways, tracing that reaction back to when we were children. Hurt children, disappointed, disillusioned. We step into these iterations and unknowingly activate on or all of our past Selves.

Through interdisciplinary work, I’ve created an immersive experience of this subconscious occurrence. One individual in our reality (sculpture piece) becomes seven in another (canvas painting).

Obsession

Installation created from a Live Streamed Performance.
Using the pages of a book on De Kooning I created a wall that replicated the boundary I felt as a woman in a male dominated space. Where in the academia of art the rare and sought after talent and mystique seemed to always come from someone male. I vandalized the wall with my own art, reclaiming my space.

Peace in Chaos

This installation was divided in half between the predictable gallery space, with paintings on walls, evenly spaced. Upon entry, the viewer is invited into the further depths of the gallery. The viewer is guided to the only seat in the room where a television blinks in sordid shapes. A meditative state might be met in this space, but there is an odd pressure held against the seated viewer. A spotlight.
This is the seat we're offered throughout our lives - to find peace in the chaos in order to move forward.

Performance

Millennial Dilemma: A Short Lived Romance

During my early years on Tinder, I decided to document one of my rendezvouses. He agreed to becoming part of my art, and we began our documentation of our interactions together. We would journal our responses to each other separately and without mention of them while going on with our lives for however long our courtship lasted. After 5 months we decided our entanglement was over. Our recorded entries were cut into a conversation that played in the background of my performance. I used my body as a conduit for the words, I felt them and painted.
Some women ran out of the performance crying, one fainted.
Relationships are tumultuous and often end in unrequited connection, a one-sided battle.

PAINTING - DRAWING - INSTALLATION - PERFORMANCE - WRITING