Large Canvases
Having a large studio to work in allowed me to expand my vision in physical ways. There is a relationship between my work on the body and how you physically perceive it. Size is another tool an artist can use for effect and communication. Most paintings here are on unstretched canvas hung by velcro and rolled for storage, but a few are triptychs on stretched canvases. Prices are on demand as the condition of each needs to be individually assessed.
Anger
POD
2004
57-1/2" x 60"
Watching how an abusive family related to each other made me see that anger, grief, guilt and depression are similar. Using Medusa as a metaphor for anger highlights that we choose what we are angry about and that the basis of all anger is fear. The heart shaped mirror asks us to look at ourselves with love to synthesize the emotion. Each of her snakes follows a different common source material of anger- religion, self defense (insecurity), protection, nationality, etc.
Civilized: Two Landscapes
4,800
1995
54-1/2" x 145-1/8"
Oil on stretched canvas, triptych
An outgrowth of the earlier Ayer's Rock Pudding, this painting contrasts the way Western and Aboriginal cultures view earth juxtaposing their approaches to land/scape.
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Bloodlines
POD
1998
84" x 61-1/2"
When Princess Diana was killed in a. car crash, it tore the energetic fabric of the world. I found her to be an archetypal symbol of women- touching so many of the issues that women everywhere have to deal with besides her specific set of personal challenges. This is my tribute to her. The Shakespeare quote at the top is "Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow."
Pocket Rocket and the Path to Heaven
POD
2004
84" x 61"
A contemplation on the value and cost of men in a woman's life, the protagonist has a vibrator in one hand as she cuts the strings of myriad men energetically tied to her, her way of fighting back to determine happiness on her own terms.
Mommom with Her Devils and Talismans
POD
1997
84" x 59"
I loved my grandmother. My lingering memories are of her sitting watching television, set in her ways in old age. I've tried to express This behavior/beliefs as protective talismen against her personal devils.
Temple
POD
1997
59" x 84"
An early piece on the connection of mind and body- looking internally for spiritual answers.
Garden Variety Goddess
POD
2003
164" x 83-1/2"
Although some details are specific to my experience, they all read universally as the story of how an ordinary woman exists and attempts to thrive in this world. Does all that poop nourish you and inspire extraordinary growth or do you just wallow in it? Find your wings.
Body Conscious/Back to the Garden
POD
2000
84-1/2" x 14' 4-1/8"
A dreamscape nightmare of looking for a way back to Eden from a woman's perspective as women who are collectively blamed and punished for its loss.
Saints and the Sainted
POD
2000
84" x 39-1/2"
I am fascinated by saints who are basically people who went against the mainstream religion of the day but earned a following from people who embraced the truth they spoke. St. Augustine on his snake was responsible for much of this, the Christ child bound, the tongue silenced, the myriad symbolic torture devices applied, the momentum over the ages through witch hunts and the ever present suppression of women which we have internalized.