ROOMS

This body of work marked a shift in focus away from female archetypes and folklore to explore some of the harder things we go through in life such as violence, loss, mental illness, fear and trauma. As with my earlier work, these pieces take the form of ambiguous narratives that allow the viewer to bring their own life experience and references to the piece, and walk away with their own personal interpretation. I love film, and I approached these paintings as if they were stills from films that don’t exist. This allowed me to use melodrama,  character archetypes and vaguely historical settings to tell stories about real things such as loss violence and mental illness such in a somewhat fantastical and coded way. All of the ideas at the core of this work are based in real life experience, and by using cinematic/archetypal imagery, I hope that I've created a somewhat safe space to invite viewers to think about these hard things and maybe even see some of themselves in these stories.

These works were shown at Grayduck Gallery in Austin, Tx in December 2021