Caitlin Gill's portfolio

Work samples

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Fox, Runneth Over
33" x 44"
Mixed Media - coffee, watercolor and handcut paper or Arches Watercolor Paper
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"Unicorn I"

30" x 24.5"

Mixed Media on Paper
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"Fawn, Runneth Away"

40" x 33.5"

Mixed Media on Paper
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Fawn, Runneth Over
44" x 33"
Mixed Media - coffee, watercolor, handcut paper on Arches Watercolor Paper

About Caitlin

Caitlin Gill is a mixed media artist living in Baltimore, Maryland. She has a B. A in Drawing and Painting from Towson University and an MFA in Curatorial Practice and Art Criticism from the Ontario College of Art and Design. She currently works as the Exhibition Director and Arts Directory Coordinator for Maryland Art Place (MAP) and the Maryland State Arts Council.

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Traumatized Series

In this series, Gill’s work examines the patriarchy, the male gaze and gender through hybrid human/animal portraits. This body of work aims to untangle the hypocrisy of the boy’s will be boy’s mentality where men’s poor behavior is justified by their inability to control themselves due to arousal from the female nude or sexualization of the female body. By combining portraits of sex workers and birds, Gill comments on the commodification and consumption of the female body and its direct correlation to the meat industry as a commodified cultural entity. Using traditional craft materials and skills such as sewing, felting, crocheting, ceramics, scrapbook paper, doilies, stencils, and stamps, Gill also explores the divergence between craft and fine art and the implicit misogyny within the distinction between the two. By Evoking ideas of discomfort and repulsion, she encourages viewers to engage in the inherent violence exercised in the construct of the feminine.

Self Portrait VIII

33" x 44"
Mixed Media - coffee, watercolor, handmade paper on Arches Watercolor Paper
Self Love I

33" x 44"
Mixed Media - coffee, watercolor, handmade paper on Arches Watercolor Paper
Portrait VI

33" x 44"
Mixed Media - coffee, watercolor, handmade paper on Arches Watercolor Paper
Portrait V

33" x 44"
Mixed Media - coffee, watercolor, handmade paper on Arches Watercolor Paper
Portrait IV

33" x 44"
Mixed Media - coffee, watercolor, handmade paper on Arches Watercolor Paper
Portrait III

33" x 44"
Mixed Media - coffee, watercolor, handmade paper on Arches Watercolor Paper
Self Portrait I

33" x 44"
Mixed Media - coffee, watercolor, handmade paper on Arches Watercolor Paper
Self Portrait II

33" x 44"
Mixed Media - coffee, watercolor, handmade paper on Arches Watercolor Paper
Self Love II

33" x 44"
Mixed Media - coffee, watercolor, handmade paper on Arches Watercolor Paper

Runneth Over

This series of artwork explores empathy and how the artist feels kindness and people pleasing can lead to neglecting one's own needs as a result. The title is derivative of the saying "my cup runneth over" - but is explored through road kill.

Fox, Runneth Over

33" x 44"
Mixed Media - coffee, watercolor, handmade paper on Arches Watercolor Paper
Racoon, Runneth OVer

33" x 44"
Mixed Media - coffee, watercolor, handmade paper on Arches Watercolor Paper
Opossum, Runneth Over

33" x 44"
Mixed Media - coffee, watercolor, handmade paper on Arches Watercolor Paper
Doe, Runneth Over

33" x 44"
Mixed Media - coffee, watercolor, handmade paper on Arches Watercolor Paper
Fawn, Runneth Over

33" x 44"
Mixed Media - coffee, watercolor, handmade paper on Arches Watercolor Paper
Fawn, Runneth Over (reversed)

33" x 44"
Mixed Media - coffee, watercolor, handmade paper on Arches Watercolor Paper
Installation Shot - Reveries + Alchemy at Towson University
Installation Shot - Reveries + Alchemy at Towson University II

Fauna

Gill’s work examines the patriarchy, the male gaze and gender through animal and insect portraits. The juxtaposition between lace, pressed flowers, and other materials with the foreground imagery of birds and bugs acts as a dialogue surrounding how the female identifying artist feels she must be perceived by society versus her experience performing gender. Using traditional craft materials and skills such as sewing, felting, crocheting, ceramics, scrapbook paper, doilies, stencils, and stamps, Gill also explores the divergence between craft and fine art and the implicit misogyny within the distinction between the two. Her work is labor intensive and acknowledges the invisibility of female labor in the home and in marriage and the lack of value inferred in “women’s work.” By Evoking ideas of discomfort and repulsion, she encourages viewers to engage in the inherent violence exercised in the construct of the feminine.

Skull I

24" x 30"
Mixed Media on Arches Watercolor Paper
Skeleton, Squirrel

24" x 30"
Mixed Media - coffee, wawtercolor, pressed flowers and handcut paper on Paper
Unicorn I

33" x 26"
Mixed Media - coffee, watercolor, hand pressed flowers, handmade paper on Paper
Unicorn II

33" x 26"
Mixed Media - coffee, watercolor, hand pressed flowers, handmade paper on Paper
Runneth Away

33" x 24"
Mixed Media - coffee, watercolor, hand pressed flowers, handmade paper on Paper
Fox, Road Kill

18" x 20 "
Mixed Media - watercolor, hand pressed flowers, handmade paper on Paper
Fawn, Road Kill

11" x 17"
Mixed Media - watercolor, hand pressed flowers, handmade paper on Paper

Birds of a Feather + Fowl Play (series)

Caitlin Gill’s work examines the patriarchy, the male gaze, and gender through portraits of birds. These distressed avians act as a personal narrative that reflects on the artist's identity. Each fowl is a self-portrait and aims to unpack Gill’s attempts to unlearn patriarchal archetypes surrounding beauty, femininity, love, gender roles, intimacy, and worth.

The Cock Fighting series explores homoerotic undertones and critiques toxic masculinity exercised in hyper-masculine and hetero spaces (such as sports culture) through the lens of bird mating rituals.

Cock Fight V

48" x 26"
Mixed Media on Panel - watercolor, hand pressed flowers, handmade paper and coffee on Panel
Tom on Tom

48" x 26"
Mixed Media - coffee, watercolor on Panel
Gobble, Gobble

36" x 36"
Mixed Media - coffee and watercolor on Panel
Feets II

48" x 26"
Mixed Media - coffee and watercolor on Panel
Specimens

32" x 32"
Watercolor and coffee on Panel
Bird in Contour I

18" x 24"
Mixed Media - watercolor, 3-D pen and colored pencil on handmade paper
Bird in Contour II

18" x 20"
Mixed Media - watercolor, 3D pen and colored pencil on handmade paper

Sculpture

Fungus Among Us

Dimensions Variable
Ceramic, glass, collage, paint and roots
Taxidermy Opposum

26" x 22"
Taxidermy, branch, mushrooms, moss on Panel
Barnacles

32" x 32"
Relief sculpture - ceramic barnacles sculpted on panel
Taxidermy Rabbit

16" x 21"
Taxidermy, mushrooms, moss, recycled vintage frame
Specimens II

18 " x 23"
Mixed Media - cicadas, found natural materials, handmade box
Fungus

24" x 24" round
Ceramic, paint and roots on Panel
Chick Diorama

24" x 14"
Taxidermy chick, cermaic mushrooms, repourposed glass box, and lichen
Grub Totem

Dimensions Variable
Ceramic, found log, mushrooms, glass, resin
Specimens III + IV

Dimensions Variable
Glass, cicadas, found natural matierals, bones, and doilies
Fungus Among Us Cropped

Alternative Installation Shot