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The Golden Path, 2024, watercolor and oil paint on canvas 79" H x 57" W
The Golden Path (detail), 2024, watercolor and oil paint on canvas 79" H x 57" W
Lipstick and Wine Coolers, 2024 watercolor and oil paint on canvas 56” H x 46” W
Lipstick and Wine Coolers (detail), 2024, watercolor and oil paint on canvas 56” H x 46” W
The Light Princess, 2024 watercolor and oil paint on canvas 44” H x 37” W
The Light Princess (detail), 2024 watercolor and oil paint on canvas 44” H x 37” W
The Wizard’s Kitchen, 2024 watercolor and oil paint on canvas 61 “ H x 50” W
The Wizard’s Kitchen (detail), 2024 watercolor and oil paint on canvas 61“ H x 50” W
The Pleasure of Agreement, 2024 watercolor and oil paint on canvas 44” H x 37” W
The Pleasure of Agreement (detail), 2024 watercolor and oil paint on canvas 44” H x 37” W
Midnight and Moonlight, 2024 watercolor and oil paint on canvas 72" H x 57" W
Midnight and Moonlight (detail), 2024 watercolor and oil paint on canvas 72" H x 57" W
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.