Featured Artist. July 2021
2021 National Women's Caucus for Art
Growing up in a rural area, I had little access to the visual arts. Yet, as an avid reader and roamer of the fields and woods around my home, I lived an imaginative life.
Times of Trouble: Sky is Falling is the first piece in a series of new work I started in the spring of 2020. In those early months of Covid-19, it felt as if the world was doomed. Always a worrier, as a child I identified with Henny Penny (from the book of the same name) and her nervousness about the world ending. When I re-read the book, I remembered why it was so terrifying—-Henny Penny and her friends did not make it.
Times of Trouble: Sky is Falling
3” x 3”, encaustic, oil, ceramic letters on wood panel
Writer, professor, feminist theorist, and cultural critic, bell hooks has had a profound influence on my ideas and work for many years. Models for Study: bell hooks was inspired by hook's repeated use of this phrase. She wanted a “language that would actually remind us of the interlocking systems of domination that define our reality.” Race, class, and gender remain institutional constructs that continue to primarily benefit people who are white.
Models for Study: bell hooks
4” x 4”, encaustic, oil, ceramic letters on wood panel
The past several years of political and social backsliding, the pandemic, the horrific murder of George Floyd, and the insurrection of the Capitol brought to light the cruel, violent, and unjust underbelly of our country.
Models for Study: Jenny Offill is a call for a different way to imagine each other and the world.
Models for Study: Jenny Offill (from her book Weather)
4” x 4”, encaustic, oil, ceramic letters on wood panel