The Western Series tells a tragicomic coming of age story of a onetime SoCal-80’s-Party-Girl who finds herself stranded in a West World-like absurdist fantasy land of her own imagining as she encounters the looking glass of middle-age. In the guise of a horse thief and cowboy slayer, our aging disco queen confronts and unpacks the internalized social, historical and cinematic constructs of the Western while she desperately comes to terms with her own true self. Domesticated beasts of burden, the ass and the horse, feisty prairie girls, broken cowboys, and furious belles appear along the way as guiding spirits.

As a female artist with a rich and perverse inner life and a survivalist’s relationship with art history, I am reclaiming the frame. I paint because I love the medium. I paint figuratively because I love the genre. I play with pop culture tropes because I am a product of those tropes. I play with animal and female stereotypes because I am a feminist who recognizes my shared genetics with beasts of burden. I create absurdist visual mash-ups because, at heart, I am a consummate comedic storyteller.