Author: Whitney

My work featured in the latest issue of BAT City Review

About a year ago, BAT City Review reached out to invite me to participate in their next issue. This journal is unique, run entirely by students, professors, staff, and alumni at the University of Texas, Austin. I was drawn to their mission of promoting the inclusion and expression of diverse and underrepresented voices in the larger art community, and I felt honored to share my work on their platform. It’s always exciting to see who connects with the things I create.

The issue features work I made in 2022 and 2023, depicting figures in pastoral settings that echo characters and scenes from classical Western myth. Drawing from a variety of sources, I’ve explored these ideas in both painting and ceramics—an ongoing theme in my work that continues to evolve in style and form.

My Interview with Lydia Nobles for A Woman’s Thing

I’m excited to share my recent feature in A Woman’s Thing, where Lydia Nobles and I dove deep into the themes behind my solo exhibition, Best Laid Plans, held earlier this year at Peninsula in New York.

As Lydia so eloquently captured, my work explores how personal narratives can become universal reflections, highlighting the tension between intention and outcome in the creative process. In our interview, we discussed how imagery drawn from my own life—red shoes, braids, rainbows—takes on layered, sometimes contradictory meanings, offering viewers an opportunity to bring their own interpretations to the work.

The conversation also touched on how my upbringing informed the paintings in Best Laid Plans, as well as the challenges of translating memory into visual form. It was a rewarding opportunity to reflect on how objects and gestures can act as symbols that bridge the personal and collective, while also embracing the unpredictability of artistic creation.