Artist Statement
I am interested in the creative power of domestic spaces and mundane materials of our everyday lives. My practice blurs boundaries between fiber arts, painting, drawing, installation, & interior design, with color palettes derived from interior design trends and textiles. 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, but I also explore themes of caregiving, hospitality, and domestic labor within my practice.
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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