I have five paintings showing in in Fine Materiality, a three-person exhibition at Peninsula Art Space in Chinatown, New York.  They’re on view alongside works by Alison Kudlow and Jess Willa Wheaton from June 1st until July 15th.

These works were initially studies for larger paintings where I let myself explore conceptual tangents in my practice related to feminine archetypes, as well as material reconfigurations using oil and acrylic on panel-mounted canvas. In each work, an acrylic impasto both attaches the canvas to the wood panel and frames the central image, further emphasized by staple marks in the canvas from its previous mounting on a wall. The unrefined effect suggests an equally incomplete narrative unfolding among each character, a type of vignette from a greater story threaded together by shared elements of color and mark making.