Category: Figurative

Wedding Feast

Exhibitions, Figurative, HERstory, Portraits
59″ x 43″, Oil on Canvas, 1996.

Here is an Oldie, but still a Goodie! I created this painting in CELEBRATION of my sister’s wedding 28 years ago! It was a 4 day extravaganza and a super special funning- it event! I used to paint only the things that made me happy- friends, family, parties, babies, dogs- because I reasoned that there were enough images of pain and ugliness in the world that I didn’t need to add to all that unhappiness…. Now I may, occasionally, make a painting or series with a “unhappy” or critical intent, but my paintings always contain humor and a “f**k IT all” attitude, because you have to laugh, otherwise you will cry and cry! Anyways, I hope to be celebrating life with friends and family and just random people again! Let’s get this Pandemic in hand already! Life is a book and everyday is a new page, so just keep reading! 🙂

Girls’s Night Out

Figurative, HERstory, Portraits

I created this painting about 26 years go, because I was so inspired by an amazing emotionally connected experience with humankind… 1994 Halloween in Oak Cliff, Texas. My friend Tony created a performance art tribute to “Pricilla Queen of the Desert.” We were 2 biological woman and 4 biological men dressed in drag having a super fun time celebrating life, art, and friendship. It was of the most absolutely fantabulous nights of my life! Sadly, I don’t have a better copy of the piece. I traded the painting in exchange for hair color/cuts with my friend Tony.

60′ x 48″, Oil Paint on Canvas, 1995. NFS

Late Show

Exhibitions, Figurative, Portraits

Late Show was juried into the Tuxedo Show at Art on 30th. It used to be titled, “Kill Your TV,” you know, like the bumper sticker? Remember, back in the day, when sitting close and watching TV was considered a bad thing? Now sitting in front of a screen all day is a way of life! It is how we communicate with loved ones, go to school and work, attend religious services, etc….This is a 48 x 36 polyptych painted entirely in about 3 hours time, with a 3” flat brush, black and Payne’s gray acrylic paint only. I added a little white highlight afterwards – but essentially, where you see white, it’s just the canvas.

“48 x 36”, Acrylic on Canvas, 2010. $800

A Girl For All Seasons

Exhibitions, Figurative, Fragmented Fabulosity Series

I constructed this mosaic mirrored painting based on my A Girl For All Seasons calendar, in order to actively engage the viewer. While looking at this piece, the viewer not only sees the art work, but also sees their own self- image reflected back, therefor, in essence, becoming part of the painting. Perhaps the viewer will contemplate what it means to be “A Girl For All Seasons”? This piece is beyond “Pin Up Girl” ideal/ objectification malarkey, rather, it is about what I consider to be the true meaning of “A Girl For All Seasons”… Can you rise to the occasion and be your best, no matter what the circumstances? Do you engage with people and really hear their stories? Do you feel connection and empathy? Are you a spring chicken even though your “spring has sprung”? What do you do over the ‘winter of our (your) discontent’? Can you pull it together during the off season, open season, party season, swimsuit season, giving season, hurricane season, high season, IN season, and for everything that there is a season …?

48 x 54, Mixed Media on Wood Panel, 2019. $2000

Unfinished Fun

Figurative, In Progress, Portraits

The gloriously fun and fabulous ancestors of my children — a 10’ x 7’ “unfinished” (or is it?) canvas that hangs like a tapestry — I bring it out for Fundraiser Galas that are located in unsightly venues and most recently, for my daughter’s wedding. I met some of the people in the photograph, but with just one look at those amazingly awesome people, I knew I must capture their likeness and their spirits as best as ever I could!

This is the song Tennessee Kamanski wrote about my daughter Sophie, her great friend when they were girls. Tennessee preformed Sings to Snails at my daughter’s wedding feast 3 years ago. It was a very low budget but super fun party.