This site specific installation plays with the boundaries of our interpretation of the domestic and the wild, interior and exterior space, and our digital and analogue reality. Covering 1000 square feet of space that runs through a main hallway and elevator lobby at Terrell Place in Washington DC, printed imagery pops off the wall with strategically placed light fixtures which illuminate patterns and cast shadows. Made for the FaceBook Open Arts Program in December of 2019.
Every layer shows a new choice; it’s a record of my decisions. History is a complicated thing; it is almost always told from the perspective of the dominant power. Showing the history of my hand is a way to tell my own story, my own history. I also dig back into the layers or cut and paste older works to reveal the past. My work is personal, and some of the layerings are meant to reveal and later protect or hide information. This collection of images shows how over time individual artworks take on diffrent iterations.
Images taken from solo exhibition for Julio Fine Art Gallery on the campus of Loyola University, Maryland and curated by Megan Rook-Koepsel in early spring 2020. Images by Vivian Doering.
The 100 year anniversary of Women's Suffrage continues to illuminate the societal ills women face even after winning the right to vote. We continue to fight for the right of choice, fair wages, health and freedom. This multi media collection speaks the words of the unsilenced woman of 2019.
Negroes in the Trees is a series that explores the ways in which we, as black individuals, in this urban community of Baltimore connect to nature and our surroundings. We often think of nature in terms of natural landscapes and wildlife, spaces that rarely exist in urban settings. In Negroes in the Trees, I want to create an imaginative environment that wrestles with our undeniable connection to nature, despite being outside of the rural community.