Artist Statement
I paint to highlight the quiet violence of womanhood as I experience it in my daily existence. I pay close attention to the anxiety I feel walking alone home at night, to a news story about another lost right, to the way women are ignored and spoken over. In particular, I consider how patriarchy manifests in architecture that holds histories of domination. I translate these concepts into paintings that hide difficult truths within lush aesthetics.
My artwork is informed by the built and natural environment. During my summer residencies in Kavala, Greece and Mexico City, I paid close attention to my surroundings, especially banal, overlooked aspects like telephone poles or parked motorcycles. The vibrant, hot Mexican Pink was ubiquitous across surfaces from taxis to shrines. The hue led to a new series of conceptual connections in my landscape paintings. I interrogated the potential feminist symbolism of the color: the way its violent brightness is hard to look away from, the shame and reclaiming of pink, the embodied fleshiness of wounds and wombs.
Recently, I’ve been experimenting with integrating symbolic and imagined elements into my work alongside real objects to call attention to women’s pain, which is so often ignored and dismissed. By using these otherworldly elements, I aim to reflect a contorted version of reality that inspires viewers to think critically about the present moment.
Artist Statement
I paint to highlight the quiet violence of womanhood as I experience it in my daily existence. I pay close attention to the anxiety I feel walking alone home at night, to a news story about another lost right, to the way women are ignored and spoken over. In particular, I consider how patriarchy manifests in architecture that holds histories of domination. I translate these concepts into paintings that hide difficult truths within lush aesthetics.
My artwork is informed by the built and natural environment. During my summer residencies in Kavala, Greece and Mexico City, I paid close attention to my surroundings, especially banal, overlooked aspects like telephone poles or parked motorcycles. The vibrant, hot Mexican Pink was ubiquitous across surfaces from taxis to shrines. The hue led to a new series of conceptual connections in my landscape paintings. I interrogated the potential feminist symbolism of the color: the way its violent brightness is hard to look away from, the shame and reclaiming of pink, the embodied fleshiness of wounds and wombs.
Recently, I’ve been experimenting with integrating symbolic and imagined elements into my work alongside real objects to call attention to women’s pain, which is so often ignored and dismissed. By using these otherworldly elements, I aim to reflect a contorted version of reality that inspires viewers to think critically about the present moment.
