Portfolio

A Persistent Ringing Oil on Canvas 2022 66.5" x 34"

Isolationists, 2021. Charcoal, Acrylic, Pen and Ink on Heavyweight watercolor paper. 50”x 38”. This image is a stream of consciousness satirical evaluation of the pandemic it was created in, as well as the resource exploitation endemic to the United States. Employing themes of surveillance, isolation, self-obsession, pattern, and touch (and the lack of it) this piece is a personal digestion of the quickly changing and disturbing world 2020 gave us.

Noether's Theorem 2022 Oil on Canvas. 73" x 42"

Spearfishing the Saline Pools 2022 Oil on Canvas. 73" x 42"

2021

Hector and Lillies Oil on Canvas 27"x16" 2022

2021

Running, 2021. Oil, Acrylic, Oil pastel, Pastel, Sketchbook Pages, on Canvas. 2”x 24”x 38”. This work reflects the experience of the female body used as an object for exploitation and disposal by the media and popular American culture. Running weaves the narrative of my own experience of sexual assault. It is a stream of consciousness piece enveloping themes of shame in sexuality, fear, reproductive capacity and overpopulation, suffocation, breath, rhythm, and running.

2019

Climate of the Terrestrial Womb. 2020. Oil, Pastel, Oil Pastel and Marker on Paper. 32” x 48” Created as a response to widespread devastation caused by forest fires in 2020 and 2019, Climate of the Terrestrial Womb is a multi-century self-portrait placing the artist in the center as both perpetrator (adult) and victim (child.) The piece exists in conversation with other works in a series sharing this title -- creating a field of inquiry around tropes of exploitation, reproduction, sexuality, responsibility of land stewardship, and over consumption.

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Exoneration of Form. 2020. Charcoal on Paper. 11” x 14” This work was created as a means to release my own body from the warring expectations of fecundity and virtue in contemporary American society, particularly in the midwest ‘bible belt,’ where I grew up. This piece began my personal endeavor with exploring such opposing themes; of exploitation and sex, the female body and reproduction, destruction -- of both the physical environment and the spiritual. The fish in the top left corner serves as a metonym for the bible, the damaging yet pious experiences associated with the church are represented by the ‘hands’ of God.

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Hillary Looks at God. 2020. Oil and Pastel on Canvas. 2” x 24” x 32” This piece was created as a traditional landscape painting with intentional abstractions and obstructions in imagery to speak to the fragmented and confusing experience of considering God. The eye-shaped forms in the water emulate the ubiquitous and aloof presence of a higher power, while the wood post represents the less-than picturesque reality of believing in anything. The native flowers represent people I have loved and lost, and the building storm clouds above the mountains represent the cycle of regeneration in nature.

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Barren, 2021. Pastel and Graphite on Board. 1” x 8” x 12” Barren was created initially as a study of a creek inlet of one of the three rivers in my hometown. The piece changed valence and trajectory when the factory nearest this inlet was discovered by the EPA to have been pumping carcinogenic waste into this waterway. I redid the work with an open horizon line and barren trees, to represent the death associated with this waterway, as well as the potential for recovery.

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Soyuz-1 2022 Oil on Steel. 66"x 47"

2020

Hillary Looks at God. 2020. Oil and Pastel on Canvas. 2” x 24” x 32” This piece was created as a traditional landscape painting with intentional abstractions and obstructions in imagery to speak to the fragmented and confusing experience of considering God. The eye-shaped forms in the water emulate the ubiquitous and aloof presence of a higher power, while the wood post represents the less-than picturesque reality of believing in anything. The native flowers represent people I have loved and lost, and the building storm clouds above the mountains represent the cycle of regeneration in nature.