Preview
Creation Date
2025
Dimensions
23 x 36 x 5/8 Inches
Materials
Oil and gold leaf on wood
Medium
Painting
Project Advisor
Tony Conrad and Benjamin D. Rinehart
Year of Graduation
2025
Rights
Copyright for this work is held by the artist.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
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Artist Statement
In my paintings, I take inspiration from late medieval and early renaissance artists to convey the drama and storytelling of the body 一 the fleshy, visceral, and spiritually confounding. Using the body as a focal point for violence, sex, brutality, and mutilation, I am exploring how I view my body in response to personal questions about self worth and purpose while battling severe depression. I lean towards the late medieval style of oil painting, because the melodrama portrayed in those paintings tends to bridge the gap between absurdity, reality, and mythos. While becoming a medievalist, I have learned that people in Medieval Europe saw in themselves a connection to the body and spirit that illuminates the existential horror and beauty of life, and my work seeks to tap into that body-spirit dichotomy for myself.