Evanston Art Center - Expressive Exuberance. The exhibition featured the series "Bristle and Lick," along with the work of Shar Coulson, Christelle Desangles, Cecelia Feld, and Beverly Kedzoir. Bristle and Lick explores nature's indifference to our norms and perceptions of gender, the folly of our debate, and the level of current angst. The project was motivated by the current lack of genuine political and social engagement, and heightened antithesis towards marginalized communities. Everyone has a voice, and we’re frantic to use it lest we become invisible, but fruitful connection is lacking. For this series, I turned to nature as muse. The paintings are flush with creatures that are at odds with their own species: self-contained plants and animals notorious for mutating in response to environmental dynamics by changing form, reproducing asexually, or altering gender. In the paintings, they abide within fabricated worlds created by deploying paint, collage, and digital manipulation. The resulting images are printed, mounted on aluminum, and painted into. The surfaces are lush, chaotic, and at the same time ambiguous, mirroring our twitter reality.
The series has also exhibited at the "National 2019," Rockport Art Museum in Rockport Massachusetts, "Multimedia" Nazareth College Art Center, Rochester, NY, 2020.
"Snake Charmers" was published in Write City Magazine, copies available June 2020
"Bristle and Lick, Madrigals, 3 panel, 46" X 108", acrylic on inkjet print mounted on aluminum composite, 2022
