The Violence of Intimacy continues my experiments of abstraction investigating the formal, referential, and symbolic aspects of the color pink. Using thin layers of fleshy tones that evoke the inside of the human body, I pair saturation color fields with a history of give and take that suggest musculature or bone fragments. I add paint scraps salvaged from my old paintings, these most textured parts of the paintings I relate to genealogy and generational trauma experienced by queer women of color with immigrant parents. It is informed by queer stories and the refusal of identity politics.
A Void at All Costs, 2021, oil, 30"x40"
man I Hate this part of Texas, 2021, oil, 36"x48"
is it worth it, 2020, oil on canvas, 36"x48"
sydney, 2019, oil, 24"x36"
the beginning, oil, 2019, 60"x48"
the rise and fall, oil, 2019, 36"x48"
repetitive process, oil, 2019,36"x72"
Don't Look At Me Like That, watercolor and ink on paper, 2019, 30"x22"
inconsistencies, watercolor on paper, 2019, 22"x30"
subluxation, oil on paper, 51"x61", 2021
subdermal, oil on canvas, 48"x36", 2021
timefighter, 2021, oil on canvas, 48" x 36"
