One Hundred and Five Years
2025
My body of work explores the important and yet often contradictory roles that are forced onto women in their lifetime. Each piece is designed to start a conversation that compares my view of the feminine experience to the expectations that society projects onto it. I painted women alongside animals and plants traditionally associated with stereotypes or themes that womanhood has been compared too. My style is a mix of realism and fantasy, purposely playing with a monochromatic and limited color palette.
In Oxygen, I showcase a blue women struggling beneath the surface, they are surrounded by bubbles that contain words that will never be heard. On the bottom of the piece I added salmon, creatures that die shortly after reproducing, because I want to expose the suffering that is hidden beneath the illusion of fertility.
“Oxygen” Oil on Canvas, 2025
In Pack Mentality, reds and pinks echo the way women, like hyenas, are demonized and misunderstood; the viewer must decide whether these animals are protectors or predators.
"Pack Mentality" Oil on Canvas, 2025
In Silence of the Lambs, a woman in a traditional dress ignores a screaming lamb who is sitting on her chest, surrounded by two lifeless ones and orange medicinal flowers. This piece blend’s themes of purity, reproductive history, and silenced cries for autonomy in a cycle that demands women’s suffering as a sacrifice.
"Silence of The Lambs" Oil on Canvas, 2025
In Clinical Trial, two women are trapped inside glass balls with mice perched above and around them. The piece reflects how women are often treated as test subjects rather than patients, exposing the medical system’s cold detachment and the dismissal of women’s pain.
“Clinical Trial” Oil on Canvas, 2025
Ripe Enough shows women in red dresses underneath a dead apple tree, they are meant to resemble fallen fruit. Inspired by the myth of Eve and botanical sexism, it confronts the idea that women are always “too much”, too loud, too alive, too wanting, and that the greatest sin was simply wanting to be anything at all.
“Ripe Enough” Oil on Canvas, 2025
While many of these expectations originate from patriarchal systems, I also understand that they are perpetuated by women who have internalized these standards themselves. In all my works I have intentionally not depicted men, instead I wanted to center the topics on the complexities of the women’s experiences in their environments and the internalized struggle that they endure. My goal is not to comfort you, but to challenge you. I want viewers, especially those who benefit from these structures, to sit in the discomfort and see what they might be complicit in.
With all of my pieces, the goal is not beauty. If you see sex where I have painted pain, violence, and survival, that reaction exposes the very problem I seek to confront. I will not apologize for calling out the systems that want to shrink, silence, or minimize my existence because they fear it. My work was made to remind everyone that the weakness in which women are viewed is not because they ever lacked the power, but because they hold it.
Rewriting Yesterday
2024
My art examines the elaborate landscapes of human emotions such as grief, sadness, isolation, depression, and anxiety my primary focus on challenging moments that make up our existence. I aim to reveal the hidden beauty of those experiences.
The motivation behind my work draws from my own personal struggles. My art has become a visual narrative, by using acrylic and oil I explore the broad spectrum of the human existence.
Inspired by Psychology, I seek to understand and reveal the inner workings of the human mind in different life experiences; I aim to navigate the skewed recollection we have of our childhood memories, often rewriting my history, I want to elaborate the difference between memory and actual perception, I aim to attain an unbiased perspective of myself.
My art is a reflection and revelation inviting the audience to witness the strength and beauty that comes from being a human being. I aim to connect viewers to the shared experiences of the human existence and a new sense of appreciation for life in general I want to create a space where emotions are explored, memories are redefined, and beauty is found.
"Tough it Out" Acrylic on Canvas, 2024
"Out of My Mind" Acrylic on Canvas, 2024
"Thursday Night" Acrylic on Canvas, 2024
"Pose" Acrylic on Canvas, 2024
"Smile" Acrylic on Canvas, 2024
"Feeling Blue" Acrylic on Canvas, 2024
"Girls Night Out" Acrylic on Canvas, 2024