Wallpaper and Vinyl

Urban Toile

I was inspired to make my own sculptures for this paper. I sculpt them with clay and wire and by borrowing from ideas of grotesques. American child-carrying prioritizes the child’s movements, is outward facing, complicated and often oversized. The parent becomes subsumed by the bodies of their offspring. These two-headed, eight-limbed figures show our culture’s obsession with the child as a misplaced center of our broken world.

Printmaking Today

Duets

For Duets, myself and Roelle have returned to a personal subject matter - this time our roles as public servants. With me working as a teacher, and Roelle a mail carrier, we have accumulated a trove of stories about the everyday tribulations of artists with day jobs.

!3Forest Gallery

I am not your animal

I utilize the similar shapes of the uterus and goat’s head to create an alluring repetitive pattern and then break from the pattern by changing color and overlapping images. The repetition of print draws sharper attention to differences that emerge. My work, in this form, has been about providing a counter-narrative to the idea that women’s reproduction is timeless and biological and within government control.

While it Lasts

For While It Lasts at 13Forest Gallery, I collaborated with artist CW Roelle on a wallpaper installation. I borrowed a traditional French toile design but supplanted the idyllic scenes of country life with the cramped nature of recreation in the city. Roelle’s wire sculptures depict summer activities with his children. The piece expresses nostalgia for childhood and the universal struggle for parents to be fully present for their children before they are grown.

13Forest Gallery

YEllow Wallpaper and more

Real Art Ways