Expressionistic Portraits
About the Work
These portraits are inspired by the post-impressionist and expressionist painters of Europe— early to mid twentieth century like Egon Schiele, Käthe Kollwitz, and Paula Modersohn-Becker, who turned away from romanticized ideals to paint life as it is—raw, emotional, and human and the Bay Area Figurative Movement including painters like Joan Brown and Richard Diebenkorn, who combined bold abstraction with figuration to explore inner life and personal truth. Like them, I’m drawn to paint both real and imaginary, revealing the raw and the real aspects of the human condition through unrefined brushstrokes and expressive markmaking.
Together, these two collections ask:
Who gets remembered?
Who gets seen?
And what happens when women paint themselves into history—not as muses or myths, but as whole, feeling beings, alive in every brushstroke?
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