Residency 4
June 2021

Paintings, Prints, and Luminations

 

Paintings anticipate communion with apparitions of memory, imagination, and emotion, a place where images are inadvertently revealed while hiding beneath the surface. Uncontrolled and imperfect markings embody impressions of figures veiled in shadow. In response to a disembodied cultural universe, work emphasizes the materialization, using paint as an index of physical effort to create a container for the body and illuminate the self in isolation: disrupting habits, dislodging perfectionism, and asking for an intimate connection within the duality of a sacred feminine.

Part of a single-session ritual using myself as the tool, paintings are created at human-scale relating to my body measurements. Tentative hands claw at the material layers that merge, disrupt, or obliterate the contradicting pools of paint that are allowed to wander on the canvas and organize themselves. The remaining detritus is then impressed onto paper to create a spirit print, recording the space between becoming and presence.

Mayhem and repair, acrylic on canvas, 27” x 54” with ghost prints on paper, 22” x 30”

Mayhem and repair, acrylic on canvas, 27” x 54”

Ghost prints, sepia/gold, blue/black, acrylic on paper, 22” x 33”


Grouping of semester direction


A collection of shelved identities


Noxious

:24

oil, tempera, beeswax, collage on panel, 24” x 36”

Ash that falls from the sky

:33

charcoal on yupo, 7” x 13”

Moonlight

oil, tempera on panel, 24” x 24”

:27


Connections made from chaos, collage, digital media

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Residency 3 | January 2021