Exhibition Photos > Groundswell (2024)

Topton Gallery, Johnson City, TN 2024.
Groundswell deconstructs and reconfigures the traditional presentation of painting into installations and sculptures. The work re-frames historical art tropes such as odalisques, the connection between women and flowers, still lifes, landscapes, and decorative filigree. Canvases are removed from their wooden stretcher bars and cut, folded, draped, pinned, or sewn into undulating forms. Hobbyist materials like glitter, diamond dots, craft paint, and plaster are incorporated.
Central to my process is clay and its historical associations – particularly regarding porcelain objects of the 18th Century.
Read the full thesis, Groundswell, here.