Artist
Some moments of the 2025 Craft Contemporary GALA!
For Your Viewing Pleasure!
Before, in the courtyard
The auction room second floor gallery, our piece, “drift” (myself and Luciana Abait)
Carrie’s piece
Ahree’ piece
Rosie
Alma
David
Frida’s husband Mick (in my Monm’s vest!) (Luis behind)
Andres
Auction
Alba
Liberty and Jay Worth, Victoria May in mask
I am thrilled to participate in the Hera Gallery’s year long, 52-piece online show, “Rewriting her Story“
“Writer Elizabeth Lesser asks “What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her?”
Flipping through the pages of your high school history textbook, how many stories are written about women as monumental protagonists? When was the last time you watched a movie that passed the Bechdel test? When was the last time there were more women than men on the Supreme Court voting on the right to our bodies?
As brands of “faux” feminism partnered with consumerist culture push out media representing women’s liberation through a patriarchal gaze, how can we reclaim the visual language to share more authentic stories? How can our art share the stories of women, trans women, and non-binary folks written out of the history books? How does your work give voice to the overlooked and underrepresented?
My works in the show:
WHITE ZIP
and
INTO THE BUSH
Says Owner and Curator Jennifer Gillia Cutshall:
“…when the murmur from art echoes beyond the walls & settles somewhere secret. And “Whisper” with an exclamation may signal contradictions or dualities. The term carries symbolism pertinent to the momentous occasion, but it also carries mystery to be filled in by artists’ interpretations. Verum is open to all perceptions of this theme. Delicate expressions are presented, as are bold, and the term WHISPER may be framed in many ways, not necessarily meant to be a literal elucidation. All mediums and modes of expression were welcomed.. Verum Ultimum Gallery tasks artists to define this inaugural exhibition to herald in Verum’s new space in Southeast Portland this summer of 2024!”
She shares further “There are whispers everywhere, they arrive in our dreams, at a bus stop, museums, and beyond. Original works of art carry whispers. The whispers from the artists mingle with the viewers subconscious, and a connection is made!…The idea of the “whisper” may be inextricably attached to the importance of the unknown or the hidden. A degree of reverence may be ingrained in our collective psyche around all things art. For me, perhaps it began when I first entered museum spaces as a young girl (in NYC), I remember adults turning to children with their pointer fingers glued to pursed lips. They were signaling that hushed tones (and respect) were the order. And anticipation is in order, like the closed curtains and the dimming of lights in the theater, the collective whisper commands our attention toward these 38 provocative works. They whisper far beyond the bounds of literal elucidations.”
There are 38 artists and 38 unique, original works of art in this inaugural exhibition in the new space!
I am thrilled to show “Excavation of the Interior“ (shown closed and open below)
12 x 28 x 12.5″, wood, paper, cloth, hemp cord, linen thread
I am thrilled to participate in WHISPER! at Verum Ultimum Gallery in Portland.
I will be showing:
"Excavation of the Interior" (shown closed and open below) 12 x 28 x 12.5", wood, paper, cloth, hemp cord, linen thread
Says Owner and Curator Jennifer Gillia Cutshall:
"...when the murmur from art echoes beyond the walls & settles somewhere secret. And "Whisper" with an exclamation may signal contradictions or dualities. The term carries symbolism pertinent to the momentous occasion, but it also carries mystery to be filled in by artists' interpretations. Verum is open to all perceptions of this theme. Delicate expressions are presented, as are bold, and the term WHISPER may be framed in many ways, not necessarily meant to be a literal elucidation. All mediums and modes of expression were welcomed.. Verum Ultimum Gallery tasks artists to define this inaugural exhibition to herald in Verum's new space in Southeast Portland this summer of 2024!"
Studio spotlight on:
WHITE WEDDING
2023
15 x 21.5 x 10.75″,
materials: book board, canvas, muslin, watercolor paper, hemp cord, string, linen thread
What does the term “white wedding” mean to YOU?
Excavation of the Interior, 2021, 12 x 28 x 12.5″ (wood, mulberry paper, hemp cord, canvas, muslin)
Chromatic Interactions: The Golden Thread, 2020, 76 x 90 x 1.5″, mixed media installation utilizing file cards written and drawn upon by Craft Contemporary Museum patrons participating in my commissioned interactive artists’ book project: Chromatic Interactions, (File cards, gold thread, pencil and crayon)
Rent Wound Tear, Mend Heal Repair, 2022, 64 x 68″ (dimensions variable), Triptych Installation, (canvas, acrylic paint, hemp cord, lace, string)