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STATEMENT OF WORK
My current paintings center imaginary, composite images of girls and women. Depicted in varying states of visibility and transformation, they gaze directly at the viewer or outside the frame. Based on people I know, vernacular photographs and women artists from art history, I combine fragments of different images to create a whole that is animated and present, imperfect rather than ideal. Themes of time and perception are through-lines in my work.
The paintings are process-driven. Intermittently sanding and scraping paint down to the wood panel, I leave visible traces of previous marks, building a visual history of the painting that in turn creates the image. I paint until a specific presence emerges through the process, not a particular likeness. I cultivate emotional resonance in my work, as well as the history and materiality of painting.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, my job as a professor of art at a women-centered university prompted the expansion of my subjects from adults to young women. Other influences include daily life and the current political climate where women’s autonomy is under attack - these lived experiences feed the work.