Paintings & Prints (2016-2020)
Statements
Sound the Shofar: Black Lives Matter:
The shofar, a Jewish instrument made from a ram’s horn, often symbolizes a call to awakening. With this painting, we hope to show Jewish solidarity and support for people of color, including the Jews of color in our community.
Commissioned by the Brown/RISD HIRAJ (Hillel Initiative for Racial Awareness and Justice). Special Thanks to Tanisha Kirkland Thorpe.
The shofar, a Jewish instrument made from a ram’s horn, often symbolizes a call to awakening. With this painting, we hope to show Jewish solidarity and support for people of color, including the Jews of color in our community.
Commissioned by the Brown/RISD HIRAJ (Hillel Initiative for Racial Awareness and Justice). Special Thanks to Tanisha Kirkland Thorpe.
Wandering Womb:
This painting is part of the "Unnatural Election," an international art project curated by Andrea Arroyo in response to the 2016 Presidential election.
See: www.unnaturalelection.com
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Three women float in a shared space, their bodies caught between rest and discomfort. Their gastrointestinal and uterine organs wander by: caressing, strangling, and connecting them. A tableau of the hysteric family…
For this painting, I visually investigated the relationship between the wandering womb, the hysteric gut, and interfamilial trauma. I painted an abstracted family portrait of three women, entangled by and connected through their gastrointestinal and uterine systems. The organs are presented outside of and wrapped around the bodies, drawing on the animalistic perception of the womb and the paradoxical internal-external dichotomy of the gut. The interconnectedness of the bodies and their free-floating organs represents the psycho-social disruption performed by the gut and the collective hysteria that stems from shared and intergenerational trauma.
This piece is inspired by the theory of the wandering womb, as discussed by Georges Didi-Huberman, and Elizabeth A. Wilson's theory regarding the psychology of the gut.*
*This is an excerpt from a paper written in conjunction with the painting. Please contact the artist if you are interested in reading the paper in full.
This painting is part of the "Unnatural Election," an international art project curated by Andrea Arroyo in response to the 2016 Presidential election.
See: www.unnaturalelection.com
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Three women float in a shared space, their bodies caught between rest and discomfort. Their gastrointestinal and uterine organs wander by: caressing, strangling, and connecting them. A tableau of the hysteric family…
For this painting, I visually investigated the relationship between the wandering womb, the hysteric gut, and interfamilial trauma. I painted an abstracted family portrait of three women, entangled by and connected through their gastrointestinal and uterine systems. The organs are presented outside of and wrapped around the bodies, drawing on the animalistic perception of the womb and the paradoxical internal-external dichotomy of the gut. The interconnectedness of the bodies and their free-floating organs represents the psycho-social disruption performed by the gut and the collective hysteria that stems from shared and intergenerational trauma.
This piece is inspired by the theory of the wandering womb, as discussed by Georges Didi-Huberman, and Elizabeth A. Wilson's theory regarding the psychology of the gut.*
*This is an excerpt from a paper written in conjunction with the painting. Please contact the artist if you are interested in reading the paper in full.