Ashes to Ashes is a meditation the cyclical nature of personal and societal collapse.

My 2011 painting installation piece Fire and Ice, inspired by Robert Frost’s poem of the same name, was an apocalyptic vision of the present state of political divisiveness in the United States. Set up as two separate rooms with paintings covering the walls and painted ceilings, Fire and Ice explored the destructive powers of both fiery passion and icy hatred.  This work was made in 2011, but is tragically even more relevant today. 

In January 2023, I burned the 98 paintings from the Fire and Ice installation in a  huge bonfire with friends to symbolically commemorate the collapse of a functional two-party system. The video and ashes seen here come from that experience.  

Injustices depicts the 5 most conservative United States Supreme Court justices in 2022, right after a woman's right to choose was abolished on a federal level. They are meant to be imposing and terrify. After this was exhibited at the Amos Eno gallery in New York, my children and I poured paint all over the justices and I then created the rotoscoped animation Injustices (Erased). This refers both to a desire to remove the Supreme Court Justices and to the fact that they have and are continuing to erase  constitutional rights in the US. 

Crowd Control a multi-channel video installation I created by animating my Riot Police series of paintings. This piece specifically aims to investigate how we perceive and interpret the actions of law enforcement in different situations. By bringing these painted figures to life through animation, I want viewers to consider the often complex and debated role of authority within groups of people. The animation process directly stems from my hand-painted work, offering a new way to examine the visual language and underlying issues related to social control.

The Riot Police mixed media paintings are below.