Gender, Identity & Self
Some of my artworks explore personal hardships and triumphs as subjects unto themselves. I also examine identity, including assumptions based on gender. I often approach the topic of gender in my art by questioning, deconstructing, reexamining and redefining male/female roles and expectations. I am especially interested in gender stereotypes, roles and ideals. I strive to blur boundaries between male/female by crossing back and forth, hybridizing and/or eschewing gender-based distinctions. I also explore taboo topics related to gender, such as menstruation and female reproductive health.
Please be aware: Some of these works are suggestive in nature and/or may include materials that some would find offensive.
Carved stone feather with gold paint accents on velvet in refinished antique frame
Layered video featuring Drifting poem
Black light reactive nail polish on PYO bisqueware with plastic skull beads
Series of nine hand monoprints for the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court after the overturn of Roe vs. Wade, for the miniprints show at SOS Art in Cincinnati, OH
Nail polish on large resin Sandicast puppy sculpture with found necklace
Still is an assemblage in a church window incorporating pro-life mailers and hearkening to Barbara Kruger
Go to linkA poetry reading costume video made for the large-scale multidisciplinary Telephone project.
Go to linkThese paintings were meant to be shown together as commentary on how Kansas seem to want to find familial connections with everyone they meet from within the state.
Prints made by pressing my painted monkey masked face to cardboard as political commentary for a miniprint show for SOS Art in Cincinnati, OH.
I led a workshop to make selfie photo booth frames at the Salina Art Center in March 2020. Frames were mixed media on thick cardboard, mine says "You Are a Masterpiece".
I made an edition of earrings titled Her Hand Raised to Vote in honor of the pending 100 year anniversary of Women's Suffrage in Aug. 2020.
In 2019, I began figure modeling for Hutchinson Art Center's Friday Drawing Group, combining my love of art, costume and performance.
The next series in my artworks exploring menstruation, Bleed consists of several ceramic depictions of realistic used sanitary napkins.
Go to linkMixed media on wood mirrors with metal photograph accents featuring myself as The Evil Queen. The Queen's biggest mistake was listening to that mirror...
One of several variations upon a drawing a dove holding an olive branch in hand as commentary on Biblical reference, peace and race. The hand is intentionally depicted as "clear" or with the text "your skin tone here."
My character Lil' Miss Spurtz, a personification of menstruation, appeared in a series of short videos posted monthly to continue my menstruation artworks.
Go to linkThis is among my continuing explorations into my Unselfie mirror mask identity, incorporating a doll I found at the antique store as commentary on Decolonialism.
Photograph of "dolled up" pig's head putting lipstick on a pig, which was later boiled and fed to the cat.
From April 2015 - December 2016, I participated in several studies to raise awareness of mental health, our health care system and the financial strains of living in a gentrifying neighborhood. I have also participated in such surveys online and later was a part of the COVID vaccine trials in 2020 & 2021. Art card drawing commissioned by Khenaton Rainey was based on a previous sleep study portrait photograph by Charles G. Wilbur.
This documentary film conducts an interview exploring my identity-based artworks and includes myself in every role as director, producer, videographer, editor, interviewer, interviewee and more.
Go to linkMy largest scale of my menstruation artworks, this project involved posting 365 one-a-day artworks in a wide variety of media (but all predominantly red in color) as created on feminine hygiene product pantiliners over the course of 2015.
Go to linkFound brass bookends with plastic faux marble faces and hands removed, to be arranged by the art viewer in relation to one another as commentary.
A continuation of the Commodities series, in 3-D with a bride doll featuring interchangeable magnetic objects as her head.
This series of collages evolved in response to my recent divorce and includes bridal imagery juxtaposed with newspaper advertising inserts.