Visual Art

My art practice has been largely text-based and my approach frequently involves the appropriation and re-assembly of evocative words and phrases from art history, literature, opera and popular culture. I am drawn to reshaping those historical materials, already rich with meaning, in order to release and extend their potential to generate multiple layers of interpretation in fresh conceptual and emotional contexts. I believe that the themes I pursue fit naturally within public spaces, the arena in which the contrast between the outside world and our inner selves is most profound. Virginia Woolf captures the essential sentiment in the phrase: “the feeling of solitude-on-display that the sidewalk encourages”.

Tell Me About Your Sadness

From the installation: What Would Chekhov Say? 2019

Various lines from works by Anton Chekhov reassembled to create narratives that reflect the writer’s observation of emotions within the ordinariness of daily existence.

St. Petersburg, RU

Digital Image printed on canvas

36” x 36”

Who Doesn't Understand?

From the installation: What Would Chekhov Say? 2019

St. Petersburg, RU

Various lines from works by Anton Chekhov reassembled to create narratives that reflect the writer’s observation of emotions within the ordinariness of daily existence.

Digital Image printed on canvas

36” x 36”

I Meant No Harm

From the installation: What Would Chekhov Say? 2019

St. Petersburg, RU

Various lines from works by Anton Chekhov reassembled to create narratives that reflect the writer’s observation of emotions within the ordinariness of daily existence.

Digital Image printed on canvas

36” x 36”

Who Will Show Mercy?

From the installation: What Would Chekhov Say? 2019

St. Petersburg, RU

Various lines from works by Anton Chekhov reassembled to create narratives that reflect the writer’s observation of emotions within the ordinariness of daily existence.

Digital Image printed on canvas

36” x 36”

Your Wound is Almost Healed

From the installation: What Would Chekhov Say? 2019

St. Petersburg, RU

Various lines from works by Anton Chekhov reassembled to create narratives that reflect the writer’s observation of emotions within the ordinariness of daily existence.

Digital Image printed on canvas

36” x 36”

Who Doesn't Have Hopes?

From the installation: What Would Chekhov Say? 2019

St. Petersburg, RU

Various lines from works by Anton Chekhov reassembled to create narratives that reflect the writer’s observation of emotions within the ordinariness of daily existence.

Digital Image printed on canvas

36” x 36”

Renewal (Triptych) 2018

In this art piece I have digitally reworked images of paintings made by women in the 1600s. Together they are meant to resemble the 3 panels of a Japanese screen.

My Cézanne (2017)

This image is a composite of 3 paintings by Paul Cézanne which have been digitally re-worked to create a singular and distinctive contemporary art image.

Digital image printed on aluminum. 30" X 30"

My Gauguin (2017)

This image is a composite of 3 paintings by Paul Gauguin which have been digitally re-worked to create a singular and distinctive contemporary art image.

My Van Gogh (2017)

This image is a composite of 3 paintings by Vincent Van Gogh which have been digitally re-worked to create a singular and distinctive contemporary art image.