Wallpaper and Vinyl
For While It Lasts at 13Forest Gallery, I collaborated with artist CW Roelle on a wallpaper installation. I borrowed a traditional French toile design but supplanted the idyllic scenes of country life with the cramped nature of recreation in the city. Roelle’s wire sculptures depict summer activities with his children. The piece expresses nostalgia for childhood and the universal struggle for parents to be fully present for their children before they are grown.
Urban Toile, 2019
relief cut and wire sculpture by CW Roelle
8 x 180 inches
Borrowing from ideas of the grotesque in 18th century art, I fashioned a view of contemporary parenting. The paper can be customized for color and size at The Detroit Wallpaper Co.
While It Lasts, 2019
13 Forest Gallery, Arlington, MA
Installation View
Yellow Wallpaper, 2008
vinyl
size variable
Evoking 18th century toile textiles, I use a repeated pattern to depict the obsessive routines of life with small children. In each vignette, maternal and domestic care are depicted as ambivalent and odd. Unsettling conflations of gardening and mothering appear.
Bjorn Moms, 2008
vinyl
6 x 60 inches
Bjorn Mom, 2008
vinyl
4 x 60 inches
Kitchen Follies, 2008
Real Art Ways, HartFord, CT
Installation View