Skinwalker, 2018

This solo exhibition opened in LA in 2018. Animals have often been references in my work. Mostly as a tool to punctuate the character’s intent. In this series, the animal familiar and the women integrated. Around the time of this series, I was inspired by ball-jointed dolls, sculpted by Russian artists like The Popovy Sisters and Pasha Setrova. They served as reference models for this series. The dolls were already elongated and it made my paintings look like Japanese anime as they twisted and morphed into otherworldly creatures. This theme was inspired by the Navajo stories of shape shifting witches.