Portfolio > THE SPACES WE ARE NOT

Leg Study #4
oil on board
24"x30"
2020
$600
shanks, gams, legs, red legs, butchered, cured,
oil on linen
31"x37"
2020
Gams 1
acrylic and enamel on board
18' x 18"
2019
$350
virtue, red legs, hanging, shadows
oil oncanvas
40' x 40'
2019
$1900
KIPPERED
oil on board
4' x 4'
2019
$1900
red legs, mee too, womans day,
oil on board
36 x 36
2019
$900
soul,spirit,voices,virus,duality,
Photogragh
2020
charcole figure, drawing, ghost, epicene
charcole,acrylic,gold leaf on board
23.5' x 31.25"
2019
$900
epicene 2
charcole and acrylic gold leaf,on board
23.5' x 31.25"
2019
$900
bondage,oil painting,tied female, wall hanging
oil on canvas
36" x 72"
2019
$1900
photo proof
2019
photo proof
2019
photo proof
2019
photo proof
2019
photo proof
2019
photo proof
2019
photo proof
2019
photo proof
2019
MAGE
photo proof
2019
LAID
photo proof
2019
GERMAIN
photo proof
2019
SISTERS
photo proof
2019
BOUND
photo proof
2019
photo proof
2019
photo proof
2019
body language
photo proof
2019
photo proof
2019
photo proof
2019
2019
photo proof
2019
photo proof
2019
beaver, red legs, me too, conceptual female art
photo proof
2019
red legs,red handed,woman's day,me too,
photograph
2019
Virtue 1
photo proof
2019
Virtue 2
photograph
2019
VIRTUE 3
photo proof
2019
photo proof
2019
photo proof
2019
photo proof
2019
photo proof
2019
photo proof
2019
photo proof
2019
photograph
2019
red legs, mee too, womans day, objectification
oil on board
40 x 40"
2019
$1900
photo proof
2019

This Series centers around the space that exists between our innate sense of being and the multiple, and shifting, culturally-constructed identities society projects on the self. This space is the contested ground where identity politics play out.

The Spaces We Are Not explores and provokes the void between our essential self and the complex and contradictory identities society projects on the individual, manifests in stereotypes, commodifies by mass media, and adjudicates through social media. Here in this space is where shame insinuates judgment, and where judgment constructs a crippling silence.
In this series I want to frame the evolving self and its struggle against the vulgarities and injustices that are promoted by the identities society constructs and projects. The human body and Barbie, the iconic toy prevalent in the acculturation of girls (and for that matter boys) for the last 60 years, are the two primary vehicles of cultural production used in this work, exploring themes such as beauty as bondage, the commodification of the body, the fragmentation of the self, and hybridization.

*All photographs are works in progress in the early stage of development. Most will be eventual photographs for purchase, some will become paintings.