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This is another building from Marin County, however in this case its context rests in connection to a grandiose mythological narrative about patriarchal religion handing over the baton to feminine spirituality. The characters to the left are appropriated out of a Giotto painting, and the feet are those of actress Blake Lively--Hollywood stars as our modern goddesses. This painting took on a life of its own as its meaning during the process of making, but I see the connection between the personal and the universal, and the individual life as an embodiment of universal themes. These paintings create a series entitled The Connectivist’s Dilemma. I portray architectural features of American suburban homes either contained by the Scottish landscape, immersed in mytholocial drama, or as memories. Home represents a utopian desire for connection and community, but also speaks to middle class consumerism. The idealization of the familiy and home as a symbol of middle life success plays into my own contradictory feelings of being in a home caring for a young child and handling domestic duties. Additionally, as I paint in attempt to integrate my identity, the houses I portray in my my Edinburgh studio reveal my nostalgic longing for my childhood in California. I investigate the modern migratory individual’s fragmentation, in which one must reconcile and assimilate different aspects of oneself. Home is a longstanding theme in my work, but always the exterior, always on the outside looking in. The aim of these paintings is to express home as both real and conceptual, to cultivate my own sense of home, and to invite the audience into a space of belonging and interdependence.
Original Created:2018
Subjects:Classical mythology
Materials:Wood
Styles:FigurativeFine ArtSurrealism
Mediums:Oil
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:10 W x 8 H x 0.1 D in
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I am a visual artist originally from California living in my adopted home Edinburgh Scotland. With work in private collections around the USA, Europe and Australia, I also love sharing my love of art through teaching. I have a two year old son and am very inspired by the connection between art making and motherhood, most recently participating in the Artist-In-Residency in Motherhood, and Spilt Milk--a collective of artist-mums. In 2012 I won an Abbey Award Fellowship in Painting at the British School at Rome spending three months in Italy researching the history of the female nude. I subsequently won a year long housing and studio grant from the Roswell Artist in Residence Program, in which I produced a large body of work culminating in a solo exhibit at the Roswell Museum and Art Center. Whatever the subject matter of a painting, ultimately my artistic purpose is to experience the deep flow of creation and to impart that state of presence with the world. I desire to make art that creates more community and connection. Starting with a digital collage process, and creating watercolor studies from the collage, I then make several paintings slowly over many months, where sometimes they are sanded down and reworked taking on various incarnations, or in other cases the piece matures fluidly.
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