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CUT From the Same Cloth - Painting 2025 - Project 1

on September 01, 2025

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Collage to Painting with Artist Statement - Painting 2025 - Project 3

I gravitated towards building dreamlike spaces and fulfilling my desire to include a horse when approaching my collages. Amid personal contempt, I succeeded in building a warm and whimsical forest with contrasted monochrome horses running through the detailed landscape. I drew a grid on a canvas of 18x24" and a printed sheet of my collage to scale up accurately. When applying paint, I started with an imprimatur and an underpainting in burnt umber. Using wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry techniques, I was able to blend and layer colors together with painterly marks. Throughout painting, I realized the importance of glazes and blocking in sections to speed up the process and achieve a cohesive color palette - especially when the details are the most favorable aspect of the painting. The inclusion of a horse was vital for me when ideating merely because it brought me joy and reflected my current state of being. Life often feels like a racehorse that endlessly sprints, and when your legs giv...

Abstraction Now with Artist Statement - Painting 2025 - Project 5

Utilizing acrylic paint, glitter, stencils, holographic stickers, caulk, and paint additives, I created 6 mimetic- abstract forms of the human intestines. The 5 x 7” canvases are evenly divided into feminine and grotesque aesthetics to portray the contrast between what the small and large intestines look like in actuality and the beautification within w omen’s healthcare. Arranged in a checkered pattern, the feminine aesthetic maintains a baby pink background with baby blue de cal comania , holographic accents , and glitter-covered paint skins as the main subject. The paint skins in the left and middle canvas represent the ridges and intestinal villi inside the intestines and are deliberately floral-like to enhance the association of fe mininity . The right canvas transforms the functioning anus into a large bouquet . The grotesque canvases have a deep red background and isolate d sculptural forms of the intestines . The intestines are stylized in shape an...

Figuration with Artist Statement - Painting 2025 - Project 4

His Royal Throne: America features Donald Trump as the object of derision. The idea for this political portrait sparked from a humorous thought to portray him similar to King Louis XIV's portrait. Displaying Trump in the iconic "Swagger Pose" would not only connect him to a historical royal figure who is known for his obsession with vanity, spending lavishly, and desire for control, but also invoke an unseriousness in Trump's "reign." It was important for this painting to be flippant to ensure my personal political beliefs were unmistakable, but putting President Trump in an art historical piece that requires extensive background knowledge may not achieve this goal - in fact, it could become the opposite, a glorified portrait. After reflecting on an effective portrayal and discussing with my peers and mentor, the most successful composition was to put President Trump on a toilet. I began searching for photographs of President Trump where he was facing do...

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CUT From the Same Cloth - Painting 2025 - Project 1

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