Paintings

Our Foremothers

I have a spider plant in my kitchen, which is from a piece of Lee Krasner’s own plant. It multiplies indefinitely. Can amplifying our “foremothers” work do the same? I’m Imagining all these amazing women artists drinking coffee in a kitchen talking about their work with this spider plant in the room making baby after baby plant.

Unweaving and Rugs

This reminds me of the home I grew up in, and my grandfather’s oriental carpet business, in Germany. He traveled to the middle east and through contacts there imported handmade rugs. His home, and also my mothers where I grew up were covered, every inch, including stairs, couches and walls, with a mosaic of oriental rugs, saddle bags, and other small woven textiles to adorn camels and horses. I can’t help but think that these works with the fringe around the edge remind me of these rugs. The process of unraveling the canvas is like reverse weaving.

Making Paint

Drilling down on the basics of my materials, these works are all made with home made oil paint. In the slowness of grinding dry pigment into linseed oil, gazing at it for 30 minutes straight, the nuance of color comes into focus. The smallest interactions and temperature of color in each piece is something I really focused on.