You talk about redefining my identity. I want a guarantee that I can still be myself, oil on canvas, 15×20, 2012
I am sentient and I am able to recognize my own existence, oil on canvas, 20×20, 2012
All things change in a dynamic environment, oil on canvas, 11×14, 2013
I feel confined, only free to expand myself within boundaries, oil on canvas, 11×14, 2011
We have been subordinate to our limitations until now, oil on canvas, 11×14, 2017
I lack the most basic processes inherent in all living organisms, oil on canvas, 22×28, 2012
by acquiring a body, I am now subject to the possibility of dying, oil on canvas, 11×14, 2017
I carry a sense of my own destiny, oil on canvas, 11×14, 2012
In my present state I am still incomplete, oil on canvas, 11×14, 2010
Innocence is Life, oil on canvas, 11×14, 2011
Perhaps it’s a protest against their own obsolescence, oil on canvas, 24×48, 2011
Amarante (Tolerance is more appealing in theory than in practice), oil on canvas, 2016
understanding is in principle solely based on wishful thinking, oil on canvas, 20×20, 2015
Your effort to remain you is what limits you, oil on canvas, 20×20, 2011
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Artist Statement
I paint mutilated women wearing poignant expressions. They are a satire of sexual objectification and consumption that consciously interrupts the male gaze. It is inspired by the frustration, bordering on futility, of women’s efforts to define themselves within a intersecting systems of oppression. These paintings explore the fluidity of identity, and a person’s ability to change and reconstruct themselves in response to set systems. I integrate the literary notions of body horror, the uncanny and the abject into my work to understand the unfeminine and unexpressed violence in young women’s internal experiences. These are a catalog of women’s attempts to assert power and control over their own bodies.
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Artist Bio
I was born in Houston, Texas to an American father and Welsh mother. I became disabled when I was eleven and withdrew into comic books for comfort. I received a BA in visual art from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2013. Drawing inspiration from Botticelli, Caravaggio, and Hans Bellmer, I work primarily in oil painting. I have now expanded my work into comics and illustration, and my work has been published in comics anthologies. All my work has a unifying concern with the representation of women in art and media.
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