Seminal Works

This collection of works contains a triad of standalone pieces designed to facilitate unique portals of contemplation for the viewer, and is thematically arranged in the following order:

1. Life;
2. The Infinite; and
3. Death.


Medicina (2023)
Pen and watercolor on watercolor paper with black glitter backing, 16"x16"

Forget-me-not

Forget-me-not

2021

36 feet long, 14 feet high

Site-specific wallpaper with custom painted details, including 19th century painted Baltimore chair from the museum collection installed at the Baltimore Museum of Art

November 2021 - April 2022

Picture Planes (Older works)

Originally shown in 2013 in a self-curated show of the same name at Maryland Institute College of Art, Ostermann created paintings in this series until 2016. 

Working with banal feminine symbols, words, and objects juxtaposed with moments of abstraction, recognizable images and objects, Ostermann creates grids, windows, and overlapping image structures that create a screen through which the picture is perceived. These filters are intentionally defunct, employing layers of transparency and overlap to suggest destabilized meaning and subjective response.

Super Hot Female

In this body of work, Ostermann explores digitization and creation of pop cultural images of femininity. As someone who sometimes works within the music industry, she is interested in the intersection of reality, digital reality, and hyper produced imagery through mainstream pop outfits (i.e., major record companies, advertising agencies, specific designers, etc.) and how these images create a communal dissertation of pop femininity to be consumed at rapid fire online and replicated in the real world.

Comfortably Numb

Comfortably Numb is a color series. It is an effort to visually express the frustrations of continually feeling displaced. It was created when my visa expired and I left Baltimore without a return ticket. Although I was returning home to the Philippines, I was leaving the home I have in Baltimore. Comfortably Numb is my journey to finding and maintaining peace through that challenging time. It is a collection of photographs of my experience.

Pamabahay

Pambahay (2020) is in my native language Tagalog. It translates to "in the house." This project tells the story of the routines we have practiced since life outside became suspended due to the unexpected quarantine that was caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses on the comfort of home and the awareness of the beauty that is found in the everyday and seemingly monotonous actions that we take. Since the pandemic people have been given a chance to look within to appreciate the fundamental of being. Nothing is more rudimentary than the element of home.

Floral Watercolors and Drawings

Ostermann works frequently during the day as a floral designer, therefore, she often turns to flowers are subject matter--they provide the soft abstraction and contextual femininity that she seeks in relation to her previous works, as well as florals transcend most aesthetic pop culture trends, while still remaining relevant. She likes to mix and match her material for the image, resulting in many multimedia drawings. 

Dome Trax

Dome Trax is an imaginative, sonic journey through electronic explorations of searching for hope during isolation and the global pandemic. Created while at an artist residency in The Merriweather District in Maryland, Reid built a 25ft wide 12 ft high geodesic dome. During the residency, she explored the sounds of spaces surrounding her by taking field recordings and documenting improvisations. What sounds of the legendary venue Merriweather Post Pavilion come to life as the normal sounds of crowds and music fade away?

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