The Unsaid
In these portraits of my aging mother, paint becomes the language that speech has long abandoned. The series invokes the power of silence and the waves of serenity, anger, and anxiety that persist even as my mother's senses fade.
Present Company
These paintings of women refuse the comfortable fictions of polite assembly, returning a fierce and unbearably lucid gaze. Drawing its name from Claudia Rankine's reckoning with proximity without accountability, each canvas is an act of implication that addresses the viewer directly.
