Artist Statement
My work is feminist, warm, and protective of the creative power that lies in domestic spaces that we inhabit and shape. My practice blurs boundaries between fiber arts, painting, drawing, installation, & interior design, with color palettes derived from current and past interior design trends and textile. I move back and forth between abstraction, formalism, and representation, without much distinction between genres. My paintings and drawings can stand alone as objects. However, I'm also interested in the conversations they start in domestic and gallery settings. How can a painting inform the furniture around it? How can furniture in a room become its own composition and interact with art on the walls? When I was in graduate school, a male professor warned me to "never make paintings that a housewife would want to match a couch to". In his honor, I bought a loveseat, painted it, and perfectly matched it to one of my paintings. This interest in domestic spaces and materials is at the heart of my work.
Artists and other things I'm looking at, reading, listening to
Night Bitch - novel by Rachel Yoder
Jessica Stockholder
Christina Quarles
Amy Sillman
Phillip Guston
Sarah Cain
poems by Adrienne Rich
thrift stores
my house plants and their wierdo shadows
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