Walled Garden

Historically, the walled garden in art denotes a space set apart, specifically a feminine space. This series is predicated on separation and fragmentation, reflecting on ways in which women are often perceived in parts, not as a whole. Imagery sourced from the ancient world to the 21st century is combined with painting and photography, weaving a pictorial space that is neither purely one nor the other, inviting questions on the veracity of the image. 

 

Walled Garden; Mouth (fragment, Egyptian, 14th Century B.C.)
Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
40 x 50 inches, 2017
Walled Garden; Groin (Fragment, Roman, 1st/2nd Century A.D.)
Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
40 x 50 inches, 2017
Walled Garden; Eyes (St Lucy, Francesco del Cossa, c. 1473/1474)
Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
40 x 50 inches, 2017
Walled Garden; Breasts (St Agatha, Francisco de Zurbarán 1630-33)
Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
40 x 50 inches, 2017
Walled Garden; Foot (Seascape Foot, Tom Wesselmann, 1968)
Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
40 x 50 inches, 2017
Walled Garden; Impossible Shoe for an Impossible Woman (pump with 10-inch heel, Christian Louboutin, 2007)
Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
40 x 50 inches, 2018
Walled Garden; Voice (stills from video performance, 'Not I' Samuel Beckett, 1973)
Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
40 x 50 inches, 2018
Walled Garden; Mind (Melancholy, Edgas Degas, 1874)
Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
40 x 50 inches, 2018
Walled Garden; A Man Looking at a Woman Looking at Herself (Jo, La Belle Irlandaise, Gustave Courbet, 1865/66)
Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
40 x 50 inches, 2017
Walled Garden; A Woman Looking at Herself (Marcia, unknown medieval artist, 1402)
Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
40 x 50 inches, 2017
Studio installation
Each canvas: 40 x 50 inches