Suburban Blues: An American Mythology
Exhibition dates: November 10-14, 2025
Closing reception: Thursday, November 13th, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Make Your Bed and Lie In It, fabric, steel, 2025
The Liberation of the Unicorn, fabric, thread, 2024
Home (series), fabric, thread, steel, 2025
Artist Statment
This body of work engages with contemporary American life by exploring themes of isolation,
estrangement, and the home by distorting quotidian motifs and reimagining Americana imagery.
The work examines how the American landscape has been shaped by the intrusion of
industrialization, neoliberalism, an elusive sense of fulfillment created by the myth of the
American dream, and ultimately how this relates to the collapse of identity and meaning in
contemporary home life.
I identify as a mixed media artist, using a variety of materials and methodologies to create
stylizations and distortions of familiar forms. Steel acts as a foundation for the work, physically
representing industrialization and extraction, while fabric, in dialogue with embroidery work,
embodies domesticity, familiarity, and a certain intimacy. This juxtaposition between materiality
creates both a visual and physical tension in the work to evoke a feeling of unease and
discomfort.
Through these absurdist and uncanny portraits of the suburban home, I am embarking on an
unending search for insight and understanding of the alienation and homogeneity of suburbia and
what that reveals about our current social zeitgeist.