Oil on Canvas
41 x 73 inches
6:29 pm is a series of twelve paintings that depict the same place at the same time, on the same day, every month for a year. I wanted to study how the light changes due to the seasons and how those shifts completely change what you feel while looking at it. They are arranged in a calendar formation to further document the change at Pikes Beach over the course of one full year. I chose Pikes because that is the beach I grew up frequenting every summer before it became my escape from reality. The photos were taken on the 13th of every month at 6:29 pm because that was the time I was born, as well as all the numbers in my birthday added together. Additionally, the size of the piece as a whole, spaces included, adds up to the coordinate points of the beach where the time study was done.
Oil, Cold Wax Medium, and Sand from Long Island on Canvas
36 x 48 inches
This is the most recent piece created based on the song it is named after. I chose to paint a diptych to portray what could have been versus what actually is. The one on the left uses cool tones and rough waters to represent sadness and pain, while the one on the right uses warm tones and calm seas during golden hour to represent love and joy. I wanted to have the two windows facing each other so that they can see what the other outcome could have been if some of those what-ifs were answered. To add texture to the stone aspects of this piece, I incorporated sand from the beach I spend my summers at into the gesso. It was important to me to use sand from the place I take inspiration from in my work.
Oil and Cold Wax Medium on Canvas
36 x 60 inches
This piece consists of three individual paintings that come together to make one. I was thinking a lot about how light is seen through fog from a lighthouse to bring ships into safety during rough weather. I wanted to create a sense of tension between the lighthouse in the leftmost painting and the rocks from the jetty in the rightmost one. The light acts as a beacon of hope, while the rocks put whoever is in the water in immediate danger.
Oil on Canvas
24 x 36 inches
This is the second piece created based on the song it is named after. I chose to paint the view out the passenger side window with the mirror being different than the outside to depict a location change. Out the window, the car is going over a bridge to the beach that has always felt safe to me during sunset, but it is painted in a cooler color palette. While it still is where I feel the most at home and protected, while away at undergrad, that place became a person. Whenever everything got to feel suffocating, they were the one person who was able to calm me down, just like the beach does while I’m back home on Long Island. The mirror depicts mountains and a lake that can be found near Alfred, New York, through a warmer color palette to show the warmth and safety felt by this person
Acrylic on Canvas
36 x 24 inches
I wanted to zoom in on the shells that I would take home with me from a day at the beach. I incorporated a blue mussel shell as part of an ongoing joke I have with my dad about me having a piece of blue beach glass on me, no matter what. Whenever we would go for a walk down the beach, my sister and my dad would be miles ahead of me, collecting all the good pieces of beach glass. We would finish our stroll, and the two of them would have 30 pieces each, while I only had 5. Somehow, at least one of my 5 pieces was a blue one, one of the harder pieces to find. They are also painted in a way that activates the senses, seeming like you could hear the noise they make from the water rushing over them.
Oil on Canvas
36 x 24 inches
This is the first of three pieces in the show that are based on the songs they are named after. The painting is based on a memory as well as my imagination, creating the overall mood of the song through my eyes. The song is a reflection of a relationship, going back to when they first met, through memories and sadness. I wanted to depict the end of a road, looking out over the bay while it rained, to capture a feeling of yearning and a lingering feeling. I thought of it as missing someone who isn’t really gone and being haunted by their memories. As if you were expecting to find them around every turn, but now they are 3,000 miles away.
Oil and Cold Wax Medium on Canvas
36 x 48 inches
For this piece, I was thinking about the relationship between the locals and those who summer on Long Island. The beach is a public place where anyone can go, but some of the wealthy people who summer there have private beaches attached to their homes as their backyard. This piece focuses on the beach being guarded and private while being a calm and welcoming place for all. The water is peaceful and serene, but just out of reach.
Oil and Cold Wax Medium on Canvas
36 x 24 inches
In this painting, I was thinking about the feeling of lying in the grass, staring up at the neighbor's lilacs hanging over the fence that my mom would cut for our kitchen, the smell filling the house. I wanted them to feel like you could reach up and grab them through the painting. I was also experimenting with how loose the brushstrokes are in the sky to represent clouds without adding fine details later on. This is the first painting that truly incorporated texture into the piece, focusing on materiality.
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