Homemaker, 2024

"Homemaker" Fabric samples for window treatments, portions of acrylic paintings on canvas, acrylic on raw canvas This work is from my "Checkerboard is so in right now" series. Each work in the series has its own individual title and focus but I...

"Homemaker" Fabric samples for window treatments, portions of acrylic paintings on canvas, acrylic on raw canvas This work is from my "Checkerboard is so in right now" series. Each work in the series has its own individual title and focus but I like this overarching idea of checkerboard being “on trend” and the phrase nods to the funny relationship between fine art and interior design. The checkerboard (and notions of the grid in general) carries such loaded history and can be seen throughout contemporary work as well, one example being recent works by Rebecca Morris. My pieces are composed of materials in my path and experiences building and designing our home last year and the basic components of making a typical stretched canvas such as stretcher keys and picture wire. Just as I started using interior white paint samples along the edges of all my strips in my Stabilize series (after being the designer for our homes as I’ve moved a lot the last few years, and knowing nearly every version of white made by Benjamin Moore), I'm now looking to my leftover marble tiles, swatches of fabric for window treatments, and as always, my own work dismantled, cut apart and made new. I'm intrigued by the layering effect of gestural marks, the solid grid, and how to make subtle moves to push and pull between this interaction. I’