Acrylics on canvas, 24 x 24 inches each. Based on a group of young women in Chicago who were active in the late 60s and early 70s before Roe v. Wade passed, the Janes helped countless women get safe abortions in and around the Chicago area. Like their generic name, “Jane” the pixelated look is meant to camouflage them from identification. The paintings are based on mug shots of several of the Janes who were arrested for their work, but I put a halo around them in gratitude for their courage.
Acrylics on canvas, 24 x 24 inches each. Based on a group of young women in Chicago who were active in the late 60s and early 70s before Roe v. Wade passed, the Janes helped countless women get safe abortions in and around the Chicago area. Like their generic name, “Jane” the pixelated look is meant to camouflage them from identification. The paintings are based on mug shots of several of the Janes who were arrested for their work, but I put a halo around them in gratitude for their courage.
84 x 72 inches, acrylics on canvas. Veiled under a stamped, quilt-like Havana tile pattern, a pixelated Sojourner Truth sold her “shadow” (small photos called cartes de visites) to support her “substance” (her abolitionist and feminist endeavors). Portraits of Black people were formerly used to document them as property. As a former enslaved person, the act of selling her visage showed great valor and agency.
48 x 48 inches, acrylics on canvas. Depicts the body outline of a victim of the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh in 2013 where over 1100 victims (mostly women) lost their lives making cheap garments
70 x 36 inches, acrylics on canvas. Celebrates the 50th anniversary of the birth control pill, hair color in a box, and Barbie. 50 Barbie-inspired stamped images wear pill hats and sport different hair colors, celebrating women's reproductive freedom and freedom of identity.
40 x 40 inches, acrylics on canvas. Tropical still life series.
14 x 11inches, acrylics on canvas. Tropical still life series.
A Mom is seen carrying her young, heel-clad daughter to the bathroom. The hurried flight of the two invokes a rite of passage as they hurry towards a restroom labeled "Woman." 24" x 18" acrylics on canvas
4 x 4 inches, acrylics on canvas, inspired by tissue microscopy of an aggressive breast cancer
4 x 4 inches, acrylics on canvas, breast cancer positive for the HER2 oncogene, inspired by microscopic image using fluorescence