Summer 2016 Painting

Currently living and working in Wisconsin. My work explores the relationships and fiction of femininity, expressionism, artifice and authenticity. Artist Statement: My work explores the relationships of fiction, expressionism, tropes of femininity, artifice and authenticity mostly through narrative portraits .My paintings are as planned as they are improvisational. I often look back on historical influences of male modern painters. My paintings are results of observations and reflections to create real and made up narratives. Depicting heartbreaks, romance of woman in isolation, girls with their pets, trends of green smoothies, stories that have moved me, trends on social media, events in my own life, my upbringing, or things that I choose to possibly make up about myself. The paintings are subtle and introverted.  The paint invites the viewer into something personal yet simultaneously acts as a filter.