Artist Heroine Avatar

Well, I think that's what the kids are calling them these days. This work is a collaboration with my brother, graphic comic novelist Matthew Bayne (check him out http://www.girlamatic.com/comics/kots.php). This piece, the Artist Heroine, links the two projects. AH transforms from desk jockey to superheroine - out to fight for justice (and paint some too). Suddenly my career and artistry have a place where they co-exist. One cannot be without the other. The AH needs the CW (career woman) as the CW needs the AH.
Oh, will someone tell me why spell-checker identifies superheroine as a spelling error but not superhero?

Besides Dali

I turned to street signs. The crime watch eye hung above the Eye as it developed.

Most the Way There

This painting has been my work of the last few weeks. What's shown here is what's most the way there. I finished it and will take another shot and post when the sun arises again (assuming it does, etc). This piece evolved out of thoughts on modern work space, the psychology of current employment laws and polices (regulate, much? trust little, no?), and Kafka (The Trial specifically). It is hard not to think of Dali which, given the subject and theory, seems appropos. The experience of creating this painting was emotional and visceral. There were times I was terrified, sad, indignant, angry, joyful, relieved, skeptical, fearful, and puzzled.

What Can Happen, Subversion II

Re-creating rectangular, greyed office space with color and curves. Prank? Art?

Collaboration and Subversion

This work is a collaboration with an employee who works for a Fortune 500 corporation. I talked about my project with this person who was kind enough go into the office on a weekend to take photos of their workspace. It is extraordinary - both the gesture and the space.

Deconstructing the Sign (and Signifier)

The text collaged in the work is from Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). The passage quoted considers the negative impact on the world that women were not allowed to work outside the home. Such wasted energy.

Cubicle Farm

Where so many of us in this country, in this world, spend time looking at a 15 inch screen and repeating the same keyboard motions again and again. What world are we creating when so many people (the lucky ones at that) exist in these spaces hours upon hours every day.