Experiments at Home

A new season in my work began as I moved to Georgia from North Carolina and started MFA studies at the University of Georgia in Fall 2020. Like many artists creating work during the height of the period of lockdown and remote activities, my attention turned toward the personal and domestic, and the scale of my projects became smaller to accommodate working at home. What compositions and colors are to be found in chance interactions from walks around the neighborhood, in observing a neighbor’s cat? How can the backyard be viewed anew as a landscape, a world unto itself? How does the personal, domestic realm intersect with the digital sphere that facilitates almost all interactions during a pandemic? This series explores these questions in paintings, drawings and digitally-edited photos, sometimes with cutouts, which join together in ephemeral wall arrangements. A formal interest in fragmentation coincided with the ruptures taking place in the world at large. Material investigations and a sense of humor and open experimentation predominate this eclectic mix of work.

Media: Oil on paper, canvas and panel, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, collage, pencil, colored pencil, marker, photography, digital collage, intaglio print, tape, nails, pins.