Art Projects Archive

Though I’ve drawn and painted many versions of entwined pairs, I haven’t come close to exhausting my fascination with the visual representation of twisted couples; the grandest or most horrific schemes come down to two people in a room at some point, acting out primal dramas. In 2017 I was commissioned to paint something for the EPHESO […]

Many years ago, I began an ongoing series about couples—some real, some imagined, some famous, some very personal. Couples—romantic, platonic or familial—can be as mesmerizing as swirling eddies or as transfixing as a car wreck. The way two beings become entwined has been explored in psychology, literature, music and film, but much less so in painting. I haven’t come close to exhausting my fascination with the visual representation of entangled couples.

In the Mitosis series, I used  the process of cellular division as a metaphor to describe in an ironic, coded way “the process of  individuation”—that is, a wry portrait of growing up in a family steeped in secrets, deceit, and denial. The image of the chromosome and references to mitosis are woven throughout these installations.