Blu

DIGITAL COLLAGE REMIX, 2022

For this piece, the act of copying and manipulation is used as an artistic and metaphorical tool. By pushing the bounds of Xerox, I manipulated Matisse’s Blue Nude II to critique the objectification of women’s bodies in high art. In doing so I am stretching society’s boundaries of how women “should” appear as a way of reclaiming space and rejecting the male gaze.

Exhibited at Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco

Flora

LINOLEUM REDUCTION PRINT, 2022

Captivated by the photographic compositions of Edward Weston, I created this reduction print as an ode to his photograph titled “Flora Chandler Weston.” I separated the layers of light within the photograph to create five layers of my print. The result is an almost ghostly figure, a metaphorical representation of the role Flora played in Weston’s life.

Exhibited at Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco

Carmen

SPRAY PAINT ON JOURNAL PAGE, 2021

I created a layered stencil of Carmen Miranda and spray painted it onto an old journal page as a way of overlapping the old and the new. I found this 1930s journal at San Francisco’s Prelinger Library and wanted it to serve as an ode to the time period that Carmen Miranda rose to fame.