These mixed media works on paper combine fine art and craft materials with traditionally women's methods of making to create images invoking the body and mind.
I am interested in memory: the neuro-bio-chemical creation and hardwiring of memory, and the physical processes that occur allowing the degradation of memory and memory loss.
Within my works, biological components are suggested, emerging from the drawing space: neurons, white matter, blood cells, the double helix. A chaotic crazy quilt of colors, patterns and shapes gleefully resist categorization and control. Layers are created, stitched together, wiped away or obliterated, redrawn and cut away, recombined. Corollaries for the experience of the maturing brain, finished pieces become very physical records of their lived histories – works that are layered, process-rich explorations on the brain and the construction/ deconstruction of memory.
ink, gouache, gesso, cut paper, maps, stitching, rhinestones, glitter; 32" x 24"
ink, gouache, gesso, cut paper, maps, stitching, rhinestones, glitter; 24” x 27”
ink, gouache, maps, cut paper; 29” x 24”
ink, gouache, gesso, cut paper, maps, stitching; 27” x 27"
ink, gouache, cut paper, maps, stitching, sequins, beads, glitter, grommets; 24” x 23.5”
ink, gouache, gesso, cut paper, maps, stitching, sequins, beads, grommets; 26” x 25”
Entropy
ink, gouache, gesso, cut paper, stitching; 32” x 26”
32"x32"; ink, gouache, gesso, cut paper, maps, stitching, rhinestones, glitter
ink, gouache, pencil, stitching, cut paper, glitter, rhinestones; 18” x 17”
ink, gouache, cut paper, stitching; 17” x 14”
ink, gouache, gesso, cut paper, stitching, rhinestones; 14” x 17”
ink, gouache, cut paper, maps, stitching, sequins, beads, glitter, rhinestones; 18.5” x 15.5”
ink, graphite, cut paper, stitching; 10” x 14”
ink, mylar, cut paper, stitching, grommets, sequins; 12" x 9"
ink, mylar, cut paper, stitching, grommets; 12" x 9"
I explore the ways in which we create, classify, understand, and ultimately remake systems, and systems of understanding. I am interested in what inhabits visible space, and things that exist outside of our range of vision both at the micro and macro level. I incorporate images and things found on the streets and paths I walk as I imagine what also lies under, above, and wihtin them. Akin to the way museums attempt to enlighten an audience, pieces both present the viewer with samples for examination and attempt to weave discrete parts into an overall understandable pattern.
Watercolor on paper
colored pencil, ink, stitching, cut paper; 16" x 14"
colored pencil, ink, stitching, cut paper, beads; 16" x 14"
colored pencil, ink, stitching, cut paper, beads; 13” x 14”
colored pencil, ink, stitching, cut paper; 14" x 10"
colored pencil, ink, watercolor, stitching, cut paper, beads; 9" x 9"
colored pencil, ink, stitching, cut paper; 14" x 11"
colored pencil, graphite, stitching, cut paper; 14" x 11"
colored pencil, ink, stitching, cut paper; 14" x 11"
10" x 8"
26" x 20"
