Oil Paintings

My paintings are more serious and thoughtful than my digital work. They're about the women who not only don’t fit in, but can’t. As a neurodivergent queer woman, I often find myself on the wrong end of social mores, so depicting women honestly as the disgusting imperfect beasts we are has become a fixation of mine. It’s no utopian vision of freedom, however; there is violence, both enacted in the name of conformity, and self-inflicted to preserve independence and assert personhood. But still, my subjects stand strong against the viewer’s voyeuristic stare even through mutilation and repression and objectification. The base skin tone in all of my woman-rabbit-thing paintings is a sort of perpetual stew- having been mixed in an old pill bottle years ago for the very first in the series- evolving and developing new undertones with each successive piece. I choose to only shade with reds straight from the tube to develop a florid complexion that seems to luminesce from within. Their folds of flesh are rendered with sensual softness, perhaps ironic considering the discomfort, anger, or apathy clear on my subjects’ faces- you are pulled in by vivid colors and sensuous forms, only to be met with distaste or a challenge.