Kingdom Animalia
2021.
The women in these paintings are clothed in aristocratic garments from throughout art history. Faces are omitted, blurred, or obstructed, symbolizing a kind of transcendentalism. The artist asks, “Where are they going when they leave their bodies? What do they bring back with them? Is it more difficult to feel one’s animal nature underneath such extravagant fabrics? Underneath corsets? And what of power? Though it may be tempting to read these paintings as ‘nature verses culture’, I see them as saying, ‘everything is consciousness.’”
Lift not the painted veil | 42”x42” | Carbon black gesso, acrylic, and oil on canvas | 2021
The banished book-reader | 39”x39” | Carbon black gesso, acrylic, and oil on canvas | 2021
Beloved being | 42”x42” | Carbon black gesso and acrylic on canvas | 2021
That which colors the mind | 42”x42” | Carbon black gesso, acrylic, and oil on canvas | 2021
This jewel of a planet | 42”x42” | Carbon black gesso and acrylic on canvas | 2021
A greenhouse of one’s own | 34”x34” | Carbon black gesso, acrylic, and oil on canvas | 2021