Bruise #2

Oil on Panel. 12 x 12 Inches.

I have been focused on painting cropped images of the human figure for some time. In my most recent work I documented many of the bruises I found on my body during the complete renovation of a burned out 1920s house. My husband and I did much of the hard labor ourselves--sledge hammers, pry bars, nails and debris were a huge part of our daily lives. I was delighted in the pathos of the bruise—a stormy, ethereal quality that was at once a representational fact and a complete abstraction.

Bruise #1

Oil on Panel. 12 x 12 Inches.

One in a series of five paintings of bruises.

Bruise #4

Oil on Panel. 12 x 12 Inches.

One in a series of five paintings of bruises.

Bruise #5

Oil on Panel. 12 x 12 Inches.

One in a series of five paintings of bruises.

Bruise #3

Oil on Panel. 12 x 12 Inches.

One in a series of five paintings of bruises.

Imprint

Oil on Panel. 10 x 14 3/4 Inches.

I suppose having thought a lot about the body in terms of landscape in earlier work, I was naturally interested in the marks that appear on that landscape. Here I am focused on the imprint from the waistband of my jeans that is made across my abdomen.