No Unit of Measurement, 2021

My work is centered on the female role and figure, giving special importance to relationships among women. That said, I pull elements from women’s literature and personal experience to create a sort of symbolic visual language that informs the pai...

My work is centered on the female role and figure, giving special importance to relationships among women. That said, I pull elements from women’s literature and personal experience to create a sort of symbolic visual language that informs the paintings. The works portray scenes of women in motion interacting with each other, and also incorporate objects related to the texts I study. In this series I focused on two texts: The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan and A Room for One’s Own by Virginia Wolf, from which I concentrated on the themes of self-realization and the undermining of female effort as it pertains to work in the home. I also wanted to point out the importance of support within groups of women and convey a sense of community through compositions that could relate to all women.