No Shortage of Bodies

No Shortage of Bodies is a book and exhibition composed of a culture report and a series of photographs and paintings. The 2020 culture report makes predictions on how our collective relationship to images might change as we venture into a new decade. The photographs were sourced from the most popular stock photography website and the human figures from the photos were all digitally removed. The paintings reference the cropped figures and were completed while I commuted on the train for my own job in design/marketing.

The Ocean

The Ocean, 2019                          
multimedia installation, part of the exhibition "it can begin with the clouds", curated by john ros.
Pinkard Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD.

These artworks re-acquaint people with the importance of and our dependence upon water, a constantly evolving environment. A multi-faceted approach promotes understanding of the inter-related threads inherent in an ecosystem, which drives and shapes humans just as humans control and effect nature.

More Morality Tales

“More Morality Tales” are archival pigment prints, digitally created from my files, and some with painted mats.

I was raised on the Greek myths, and Grimms & Anderson's fairy tales, and I suppose that is where my visual stories began.

 

The Superpositioned

The goal for this work is to evoke a different sense of reality.

Created using recycled plexiglass, the work is painted or etched in layers, which when brought together to create a three dimensional image.  Using different methods, hidden layers are created within each piece, which when lit, reveal another dimension to the work. 

Prints

DeVane began as a painter-printmaker—creating beautiful, often haunting imagery of dense landscapes that evoked scenarios and longings of struggle, a sense of being, place, liberation, and freedom. Her aesthetic is deeply affected by W.E.B DuBois’ concept of “double consciousness”—living simultaneously in a black and white world—or what Paul Gilroy has described as “the processes of cultural mutation and restless (dis)continuity” given the biases of Western canons and the benign recognition of the confluences of African diasporic aesthetic practices.

Again and Again


Again and Again refers to the repeated cycles happening all around us, from tectonic shift and volcanic activity to the devastating forest fires and the slow new growth that follows. In one sense, the phrase implies a form of persistence or survival. In another, the repetition can articulate a failure to change course.
 

Renaissance Series

The Renaissance series is a grouping of three artworks of skeletons inspired from vintage scientific illustrations. Each mixed media collage is six feet tall by four feet wide and all are made from sepia colored Schumacher wallpaper. The process includes hand ripping the toile wallpaper, reconfiguring the torn pieces into the various skeleton poses and then sealing and varnishing the artwork. Each piece is inspired by a vintage illustration from Christoph Jacob Trew, a German doctor and botanist from the 18th century.

Baetylus

We all have our sharp exteriors that conceal the parts of us that we would rather others didn’t see. Sometimes happenstance or necessity causes us to remove our shell and expose the vulnerabilities that we worked so hard to conceal. Suddenly our faults see sunlight and memories rise to the surface. The expulsion of the covering can be cleansing, it can prove that our shame was unfounded and the tremendous effort it took to shield ourselves from the perceptions of others was wasted.
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