2019
Miniatures
Her Voice
Size: 15.75”x11.75” unframed; 19.5x14.25” framed
Medium: Oil paint on panel; bronze frame
Date: 2019, sold
Together
Size: 3.5”x2.75” unframed; 5.25”x4” framed
Medium: Oil paint on panel; bronze frame
Date: 2019
About: Together we can be so much more. We can break any wall down. We can build a world-- a better world together.
Intrepidity
Size: 7”x5” unframed; 10”x7” framed
Medium: Oil paint on panel; bronze frame
Date: 2019, sold
Voice
Size: 3.5”x2.75” unframed; 5”x3.25” framed
Medium: Oil paint on panel; bronze frame
Date: 2019
About: Her voice has the power to reimagine a better world.
Giver
Size: 3.5”x2.75” unframed; 4.15”x2.75” framed
Medium: Oil paint on panel; bronze frame
Date: 2018, sold
Giver II
Size: 3.5”x2.75” unframed; 4.15”x2.75” framed
Medium: Oil paint on panel; bronze frame
Date: 2018
Her Burden
Size: 4.5”x3.5” unframed; 6.75”x4.75” framed
Medium: Oil paint on panel; bronze frame
Date: 2018
About: The weight attached to being a woman: being a caregiver, being kind and generous, being selfless.
Consumption
Size: 4”x6” unframed; 8.25”x5.5” framed
Medium: Oil paint on panel; bronze frame
Date: 2019, sold
Medusa’s Truth
Size: 3.5”x2.75” unframed; 5.25”x4” framed
Medium: Oil paint on panel; bronze frame
Date: 2018
The Walls Between Us
Size: 9”x6.75” unframed; 13.5”x10.5” framed
Medium: Oil paint on panel; bronze frame
Date: 2019
About: We can imagine a better future--one without walls, and one in which we see each other for what we are, two women standing together.
Her Acquiescence
Size: 7”x5” unframed; 10”x7” framed
Medium: Oil paint on panel; bronze frame
Date: 2019
Breaking from Delicacy
Size: 3.5”x2.75” unframed; 6.5”x4” framed
Medium: Oil paint on panel; bronze frame
Date: 2019, sold
About: What a lovely thing a rose is, but she is not a rose.
Jar
Size: 3.5”x2.75” unframed; 6.5”x4” framed
Medium: Oil paint on panel; bronze frame
Date: 2019
About: He put her in the background, so she put him in a jar.
Growth
Size: 3.5”x2.75” unframed; 5.25”x4” framed
Medium: Oil paint on panel; bronze frame
Date: 2019, sold
Tangles of Violence
Size: 3.5”x2.75” unframed; 5”x3.25” framed
Medium: Oil paint on panel; bronze frame
Date: 2018
About: In this piece, the figure’s vines are shown to be tangling little men holding guns. She is taking away their weapons and the violence that goes with them. In 2018, the total number of deaths by gun violence in the US was 14,646, with 57,206 recorded incidents. Too many sons, daughters, sisters, brothers, mothers, and fathers have been stolen from their families. This needs to end. We can all help in this change. Vote. Talk to people who strongly defend guns. Protest. Make work about it. Share your thoughts on the internet. Be active. It’s time for change.
Medusa’s Story
Size: 3.5”x2.75” unframed; 5”x3.25” framed
Medium: Oil paint on panel; bronze frame
Date: 2018
About: In Greek mythology, Medusa was described as a wicked woman with venomous snakes in place of her hair and with a gaze which turned men into stone. Medusa was originally known to be a beautiful maiden, whose looks gained the aspiration of many suitors. However, one day she was raped by the god of the sea, Poseidon, in Athena’s temple. Athena, the goddess of wisdom and warfare, was so outraged by the defilement of her temple, that she turned Medusa into a hideous monster. This was her punishment for being a victim of rape, and it was considered in these tales to be a just and well earned sentence. Poseidon was not punished. In this piece, instead of snakes, flowers replace her hair. Her vines wrap themselves around the bodies of tiny men. She is fighting back. She is speaking up.
Walls
Size: 4”x6” unframed; 8.25”x5.5” framed
Medium: Oil paint on panel; bronze frame,
Date: 2019
About: This piece is about putting a magnifying glass on the importance of each life. When those in the government dehumanize immigrants, speaking about them as though they are animals, it has a reverberating effect across this country. People have begun to think they can treat immigrants as such. This horrific behavior has continually extended to children. We have heard of the deaths of children at the border, abuse from the border control agents, and continuing family separation. No more building walls between humans. We are all one, made of flesh, bones, and blood. The only thing a wall will do is cause more hate, more sorrow, more racism, and more loss of lives.
Resilience
Size: 4”x6” unframed; 8.25”x5.5” framed
Medium: Oil paint on panel; bronze frame
Date: 2019
Painted Away
Size: 9”x6.75” unframed; 13.5”x10.5” framed
Medium: Oil paint on panel; bronze frame,
Date: 2019, sold
About: “Everyone wants a strong woman, Until she actually stands up, Flexes her muscles, Projects her voice, Suddenly, she is too much. She has forgotten her place. You love those women, as ideas, fantasies, Not as breathing, living humans, Threatening to be even better, Than you could ever be.”― Ari Eastman
His
Size: 4.25x3.25” unframed; 7”x5” framed
Medium: Oil paint on panel; bronze frame
Date: 2019
About: This piece was inspired by Rupi Kaur’s poem “I could have been anything in the world, and yet I chose to be his.”
Man in a Jar
Size: 3.5”x2.75” unframed; 5.25”x4” framed
Medium: Oil paint on panel; bronze frame
Date: 2018
Installation view
From show, solo show “The Walls Between Us”, May 10th, 2019 at the Lazy Susan Gallery. Show curated by Melissa McCaig-Welles
