My work focuses on transparency, texture, and unsettling color. Appropriating explicit imagery from
films, music videos, as well as art diaries and photographic archives, I then invert the image’s traditional
color to assert an emotive, horror-driven scene. My paintings exist in a world that should not exist, thus
challenging the viewer as well as the male-gaze. Oil paint, canvas and wood panels are merely vehicles
for me to channel the intimate complexities that I wish to present. I gather inspiration from the likes of
Wilhelm Sasnal and Marlene Dumas, whose paintings contain an air of mystery, with sinister
undertones. Though my imagery is often from film, I paint from my individual experiences of catholic
guilt and unwarranted sexualization in vulnerable situations; thus the content in my paintings exploit
inherent femininity as a weapon as well as a flaw. So, acknowledging traditionally female archetypes
through a veil that questions one’s own mindset, my paintings exist to be submersed, a world that is
emotive and uncomfortable, like our own.
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The explanation of your work is very illuminating and it really provides an interesting entrée into the different pieces. They really work well together in light of what you say, but I think they also stand up individually. The composition of each one is interesting, and the colors are pretty unique. It’s a shame that the full effect can’t be gleaned from these images, and I imagine that the full-sized pieces in an exhibit would be really impressive. Congratulations!