New Work
These paintings were made during the pandemic and depict family members cocooning with me or who I saw on Zoom. I’m asking, “How do we navigate intimacy when so much of our experience is through technology?”
These paintings were made during the pandemic and depict family members cocooning with me and others I only saw on Zoom. A cell phone has a complex role in modern life, almost a personality. We talk about it technologically and miss its intense presence and impact.
Sio & Sile / 11” x 14” / Oil on Canvas
Airport / 11” x 14” / Oil on Canvas
Hiker / 30” x 40” / Oil on Linen
The way we are living is unprecedented, miraculous and dangerous.
The way we are living is unprecedented, miraculous and dangerous.
David & Sile-Pink / 14” x 11” / Oil on canvas
Cellphone Visit / 21" x 14" / Oil on Grandma Moore's Linen Tablecloth
Rubedo / 16" x 20" / Oil on Aluminum
Cellphone Couple Fall / 14" x 11" / Oil on Canvas
On Zoom we see odd crops, peoples heads and just a little bit of their hand.
On Zoom we see odd crops, peoples heads and just a little bit of their hand. Would we ever have cropped a figure in this way before?
Maria@ Alice Neel-Met / 30" x 40" / Oil on Linen
Bather / 42" x 60" / Oil on Linen
In my painting I am reflecting on what we are actually doing, now.
I want to explore what painting can do when we think and communicate with images.
Cocoon / 30" x 40” / Oil on Linen
Paddleboard / 36" x 48" / Oil on Canvas
I leave areas of raw canvas or pencil lines because I feel we are undone, unfinished and in a liminal space. The dog is half out of the frame. Things are not contained and out of control.
In these paintings you will see areas of raw canvas or just pencil lines. We are undone and in between. The dog is half out of the frame. Things are not contained and out of control.
I use cell phone or zoom photography as a source for my painting as I use it as memory in my life.
I use cell phone or zoom photography as a source and transform, simplify and abstract.
She holds the cell phone as in a prayer, ritual or Mudra. This gesture, never seen before, is now part of our lives.
She is like a Madonna holding the cell phone-as in a prayer, ritual or Mudra. This gesture, never seen before, is now part of our lives.
Convalescence/ 30” x 40” / Oil on Linen
Zoom Family / 14" x 11" / Oil on Canvas
Many of us have shifted into intimate relationship with technology.
Many of us have shifted into intimate relationship with technology.
Cellphone Madonna / 24" x 24" / Oil on Board
Mom / 14" x 14" / Oil on Linen
Red Sweatshirt / 11" x 14" / Oil on Canvas
Artist Zoom call / 14" x 11" / Oil on Canvas
I’m not against technology or for it - I’m reflecting on it and contemplating it.
I’m not against technology or for it - I want to look deeply and contemplate it.