July 29-August 27, 2023
TAPESTRY OF THE PSYCHE
AT LIBERTINE LOS ANGELES
featuring
THE SALON OF INNER BEAUTY
The Salon of Inner Beauty
2022-23
150,000 copper and aluminum acupuncture needles, wire, polymer clay
192” x 96” diameter
488 cm x 244 cm diameter
Pop up at the Bendix Building in downtown Los Angeles in August 2022. These large scale works were completed during my time living in the warehouse district in downtown Los Angeles 2017-2022. These reflect the vibrant and chaotic energy of that space.
Untitled (DTLA)
2021-2022
acrylic on Tyvek
108 x 132”
Disruptive Spirit
George Billis Gallery in Los Angeles, 2019
The paintings in this exhibition are a response to the radical change in environment I’ve undertaken lately. I moved to Los Angeles in 2017 after a rather long stint in New Mexico. The dynamism and noise of Los Angeles has prompted a looser, faster, more gestural way of working after much time spent making slow, meditative, paintings in the relative quietude of the high desert. This new influx of energy has led to the disruption of my own habituation in a sweeping deviation from what has been my norm.
When I first arrived, every day I felt my brain crackling as new networks were forming and new data was being added to the system. My expression is a direct result of the energy and vibration of the environment and state of mind I find myself in. The configuration of the works speaks to the collage-like quality of the city, and the exuberant color reflects the change in palette in my daily life, and a different experience of light. Showing both bodies of work as an integrated whole refers to this bridge in my experience and represents taking a risk, of intentionally breaking my groove, both in life and in art practice, and seeing what happens, as the old process is no longer resonating with the energetics of my new world.