Artist Statement
“Wild Side” is a collection of figurative paintings of women celebrating power, fantasy, and human nature untamed. In my work I play with contradictions at the heart of selfhood: beauty and unease, allure and alienation.
I create singular images of an uncompromising and rebellious femininity. The images are expressive, character-driven, and iconic. At the center of “Wild Side” is my fascination with the expressive geography of the feminine face and figure, which I shape into entities of raw emotional energy. These women co-inhabit white spacial voids with wild animals and other manifestations of nature.
There is a deliberate absence of narrative or context in my paintings, as my focus is on the individual and their inner world. Through highly saturated color, stylization, and graphic elements, my work is melodramatic and high impact. The paintings are like fictional character studies, glamorizing and amplifying liberated emotional realities.
I use AI to generate reference materials and models for these works. This new technology plays a vital role in my process, an interface with personal and cultural symbolism. I work with a variety of tools to apply paint onto wood panels. My approach to image-making emphasizes immediacy, presence, and the primal resonance of color and shape.
My love for art comes from 20th-century visual culture: caricature, movie posters, illustrations, and advertisements. I see myself as a part of this cultural lineage, within which I feel a kinship with artists who bridged the worlds of commercial and fine art, such as Patrick Nagel, Andy Warhol, and Jon Whitcomb, among others.