Kinetic Refuge explores the different bodily experiences of joy, strength, and despair in tandem with various materiality explorations in oil paint. Displayed as a triptych where each painting explores a unique style, the three pieces connect modularly, creating visual cohesion.
Throughout all iterations, compositions share reused color palettes. Segments of overlapping bodies are color coded as light green and pink, with each color being of a matching value. The main figures range in color styles from monochromatic to analogous—red or magenta, while others yellow and purple. In each piece, colors from others are made apparent and have a common background of a singular, shallowly oscillating, monochromatic hue.
Kinetic Refuge (2024) 66" x 72" modular triptych, oil paint on canvas
"Sociometry" 36"x24" Oil paint on canvas.
"Sanguine" 30"x30" Oil paint on canvas.
"Surrender" 30" x 40" Oil paint on canvas.
The first piece, “Sociometry,” explores the ways in which the human body becomes more joyful during experiences of social interaction. The bright colors and overlapping style aid to show the joining of bodies, as we are positively impacted by meaningful experiences in the presence of others. The second, “Sanguine,” utilizes warmer colors and an impasto technique, showing how the materiality of paint can convey the strength our bodies are capable of, mentally and physically. The third, “Surrender,” explores the overwhelming feeling of despair and how it inspires a disconnect from the body. This is communicated through a painting style that uses many built-up, thinner layers of paint to show transparency in each depicted figure.
Individual pieces of Kinetic Refuge (2024)
Eros (2023) 16.5"x24" (image), 21.5"x30" (print) Linocut relief print
Kindred (2023) 36"x36" Oil paint on canvas
Watercolor Study (2024) 23" x 22" 40 min (left) & 20 min (right) watercolor illustrations.
Life-size (2024) 36" x 48" graphite, ink, & colored pencil self-portrait on mixed media paper.
Agapé, (2023) 8"x10" Image: 4" x 6" copper etching, drypoint
Hand-painted on slide, three layers
Stencil, texture, three layers
Hand-erasing, rainbow roll, hand-painted, two layers
Hand-painted on slide, four layers
Selected Monotypes (2023) 12" x 9" Monotype prints
Ylang-Ylang and Coffee Plant (2024) 13" x 19" colored pencil, Adobe Illustrator. Work for use by University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens.
Pages from Submersive Sea Scavenge, (2023) 10" x 5" Watercolor & colored pencil