Recent Work

Texas Two-Step

My recent paintings, which I refer to as cowgirl portraits, feature paint swatch samples shaped, painted, and collaged into distorted, mixed-media portraits. The inspiration and blueprint for the facial features come from 1960s wig ads standard in romantic comic books of the time. Stylistically, this new series sits between precision and playfulness, both figurative and abstract. These are strong women, no longer restrained by the beauty standards of the time. The cowgirl series is part of a larger project exploring and deconstructing fantasy tropes from American western culture. Antithetical to the suburban Texas confines of my youth and the precision and desolate domestic themes of my earlier work, this world and work are expansive, unkept, and feral.  

Process video for Texas Two-Step #11 (Glynda)

Texas Two-Step #13 (Glynda), 2023

Soft pastel and graphite on paper

51 x 42 inches

Texas Two-Step #12 (Glynda), 2023

Charcoal, wax pastel, graphite on paper

56 x 42 inches

Texas Two-Step #11 (Glynda), 2022

Acrylic, paint swatches, pencil, crayon on wood panel

48 x 36 inches

Texas Two-Step #10 (Sylvia), 2022-2023

collaged paint swatches, water-based ink, acrylic paint, on wood panel

16 x 20 inches

Texas Two-Step #9 (Frances), 2022-2023

Collaged paint swatches, acrylic paint, on wood panel

16 x 20 inches

Texas Two-Step #8 (Fannie), 2022-2023,

collaged paint swatches, water-based crayon, acrylic paint, on wood panel

16 x 20 inches

Texas Two-Step #7 (Minerva), 2022-2023

Collaged paint swatches, water-based ink, acrylic paint, on wood panel

16 x 20 inches

Texas Two-Step #6 (Zara), 2022

Collaged paint swatches, acrylic paint, graphite pencil, colored pencil, on wood panel

20 x 16 inches

Texas Two-Step #5 (Janice), 2022

Collaged paint swatches, acrylic paint, graphite pencil, colored pencil, on wood panel

20 x 16 inches

Texas Two-Step #4 (Eva), 2022

Collaged paint swatches, acrylic paint, graphite pencil, colored pencil, on wood panel

20 x 16 inches

Texas Two-Step #3 (Staci), 2022

Collaged paint swatches, acrylic paint, graphite pencil, on wood panel

20 x 16 inches

Texas Two-Step #2 (Vera), 2022

Collaged paint swatches, acrylic paint, on wood panel

20 x 16 inches

Texas Two-Step #1 (Gayle), 2021

Collaged paint swatches, acrylic paint, on wood panel

20 x 16 inches