APPLICATION: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PAINTING
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD, HARTFORD ART SCHOOL
WORK SAMPLE // ONLINE PORTFOLIO
Not Winning an Unwinnable Game is Not the Same as Failing, 2024, Flashe on paper, 33 x 21 inches
Substanceless Blue, 2024, Flashe on paper, 24 x 22 inches
Through the Looking Glass with Heart Shaped Sunglasses, 2024, Flashe on paper, 40 x 30 inches
The Golden Thread, 2024, Flashe on paper, 26 x 29 inches
Blueprint, 2024, Flashe on paper, 17 x 14 inches
Surface Nature, 2023, Flashe on paper, 30 x 23 inches
Psyche (Trellis), 2022, Flashe on paper, 30 x 40 inches
Sheperdess, 2023, Flashe on paper, 33 x 25 inches
Codman House, 2022, Flashe on paper, 30 x 22 inches
What We Don’t Remember Lives in Us Forever, 2021, Flashe on paper on panel, 40 x 30 inches
Running Away/Looking Back (Secure Base Phenomena), 2023, Single Channel Video, 3 minutes 33 seconds
https://vimeo.com/879849913?ts=0
Running Away/Looking Back (Secure Base Phenomenon) explores the clichéd cinematic shot of a girl running away from the camera while continually glancing back over her shoulder. This shot is commonly used in both horror films and commercial advertisements, to different ends. In my video I intercut material from the two sources to create a non-stop sequence of girls running away while looking back at the camera. Some are running for their lives and others enticing the viewer in a sort of gleeful prance designed to create a fantasy of freedom and happiness (at the cost of a bottle of perfume or handbag). The psychological theory of Secure Base Phenomenon refers to the necessary existence of a figure (usually a parent) that represents a “secure base” that a child looks to for security in order to freely explore the world with curiosity. In my video, the figure (represented by the camera) alternately represents a predator who wants to literally possess and kill her or an idealizing gaze that wants to reduce her to and contain her in a fantasy that she could never actually realize- a different kind of possession/murder.
Untitled (for Sunday), 2022, Flashe on paper on panel, 20 x 16 inches
Untitled (Nouvelle Me), 2021, Flashe on paper on panel, 42 x 44 inches
Irrational Thoughts, 2022, Birdseye diaper fabric, thread, dye, aluminum and enamel 24 inch diameter
* from a series of work in which I hand embroidered Sol Lewitt’s 1967 Paragraphs on Conceptual Art on oversized hand dyed pieces of diaper fabric and had 3-foot aluminum “hoops” industrially fabricated and painted to match the thread and fabric.
Banal Ideas, 2022, Birdseye diaper fabric, thread, dye, aluminum and enamel, 24 inch diameter
* from a series of work in which I hand embroidered Sol Lewitt’s 1967 Paragraphs on Conceptual Art on oversized hand dyed pieces of diaper fabric and had 3-foot aluminum “hoops” industrially fabricated and painted to match the thread and fabric.
Side Effects, 2022, Birdseye diaper fabric, thread, dye, aluminum and enamel, 36 inch diameter
* from a series of work in which I hand embroidered Sol Lewitt’s 1967 Paragraphs on Conceptual Art on oversized hand dyed pieces of diaper fabric and had 3-foot aluminum “hoops” industrially fabricated and painted to match the thread and fabric.
Sense and Sensibility, 2018, Flashe on paper on panel, Diptych: 50 x 80 inches (left panel: 50 x 40”, right: 50 x 33”)
Untitled (Pink Lady with Flowers), 2020, Flashe on paper on panel, 36 x 30 inches
Untitled (Green Fracture), 2020, Flashe on paper on panel, 36 x 30 inches
Blind Man’s Bluff, 2019, Flashe on paper on panel, 40 x 30 inches
Untitled (Wainscott Floral Porcelain), 2018, Flashe on paper on panel, 48 x 40 inches
Untitled (for Mina), 2017, Flashe, digital print and tape on paper, 40 x 60 inches
Untitled (for Alice), 2015 ,Flashe, digital print and tape, on paper, 43 x 49 inches
Untitled (for Emily), 2017, Flashe, digital print and tape, on paper, 42 x 42 inches