The Surrender
The Gilded
The Truth
The Light
The Way
Out of the Closet Again
Pretty Little Mess
Les Bain
5A
Late Bloomer
Dirty Laundry
The Unbreakables
Domestic Situation
She's Unbreakable
ICON
Girl Painter
Vanity
In Crowd
Namaste
Game Over
Out Of The Closet
Aquasition
Triplicate Service
Shattered Glass
Out of the Closet, Oil on Canvas 72" x 72"
Dirty Laundry
aPOPcalypse
American Woman 60" x 40" Oil on Canvas
She Defies Gravity 48" x 36" Oil on Belgian Linen
Flying Girls
Rilasciare
l'ame de la femme
l'ame de la femme
Broken Treaties, Oil on Belgan Linen 48" x 36"
Every Child My Own,Oil on Canvas 42" Round
Ubi Caritas
Ghost Dance
Procession of 172 Souls to Heaven (Oil on Masterpiece Elite Belgian Linen) 48"x36" 2015
Procession of 169 Souls to Heaven
O Thus She Stood, Oil on Belgian Linen, 72"x48"
Fait Accompli, Oil on Canvas, 36"x36"
The Surrender
The Gilded 60” x 54” Mixed Media with Oil and 24K Gold on Canvas, Hand gilded gold floater frame, 2024
The Truth60” x 54” Mixed Media Oil on Canvas The Truth depicts a woman, her bold features masked by a seductive allure. She exists in an opulent setting, surrounded by lavish fabrics and ornate trinkets, seemingly ensnared by the presence of a serpent coiling above her shoulder. The snake, its scales glistening with the allure of high fashion and luxury, represents the enchanting power that materialism holds. It symbolizes the seductive nature of consumerism and somewhat celebrates it as she embraces the dangerous enticements of a culture that values superficiality over substance. The Truth explores the intertwining themes of women's subjugation and the perpetuation of domestication within the confines of societal expectations.
The Light 60” x 54 “ Mixed Media Oil on Canvas The Light captures the essence of feminine strength and resilience, depicting a woman exuding an ethereal beauty. She is standing tall, her gaze steady and confident, enveloped in a cascade of radiant lights. Most strikingly, she wears a resplendent chandelier atop her head, illuminating the space around her. The light fixture, with its delicate crystals and gleaming lights, symbolized the power and brilliance that women possess within themselves. It represents the light of knowledge, self-discovery, and transcendence that emanates from within, illuminating the path towards liberation and empowerment. The Light tests the notion of domestication by portraying women as the source of their own light and strength while celebrating the triumph over societal expectations and the embracing of one's inner power.
The Way 58” x 52” Mixed Media Oil on Canvas 2023
Out of the Closet Again56” x 56” Mixed Media Oil on Canvas Out of the Closet delves into a vibrant and fantastical exploration of labels and the female condition. This captivating artwork presents a heroine who finds herself entrapped in a luxurious closet of her own creation. She gazes directly at the viewer, simultaneously turning her back and transcending her circumstances. With no shame in her situation, the decision to emerge or not rests solely with her, and while her possessions somewhat disguise her, they also empower her. The closet overflows with high fashion designer handbags and shoes, representing opulent luxury and material excess. The presence of geometric lines intersecting the painting holds symbolic significance, representing the systemic domestication of women. These lines serve as visual reminders of the societal structures and expectations that confine women to specific roles and limit their autonomy. They highlight the rigid grid of societal norms and restrictions that seek to define and confine women within prescribed boundaries. The artwork resonates with the principles of transcendental feminism, which advocates for the transcendence of traditional gender roles and the liberation of women from societal constraints. The portrayal of the heroine, who chooses whether to emerge from the closet or not, reflects the essence of empowerment and self-determination that lies at the heart of transcendental feminism. Her decision to confront or defy societal expectations demonstrates the power of agency and choice in challenging the domestication of women. The opulent luxury depicted within the closet raises questions about the role of material possessions in defining femininity and success. While the possessions may act as a form of disguise, they also convey a sense of empowerment, suggesting that women can navigate and shape their identities and experiences within a patriarchal society using various tools available to them, even those traditionally associated with materialism and consumerism. "Out of the Closet" offers a thought-provoking narrative that encourages viewers to contemplate the impact of labels, societal expectations, and material possessions on women's lives. It challenges the notion of domestication by highlighting the power of individual agency and the possibility of transcendence. The artwork serves as a visual representation of the ongoing struggle for women's autonomy and self-expression, inviting viewers to consider the intersections of feminism, societal constructs, and personal empowerment.
Pretty Little Mess Oil on Mixed Media 50” x 50” Framed in White Floating Frame
Les BainLes BainCaught in voyeuristic moment, the powder room cleanses the soul. 60” x 48” Oil on Canvas, in white floater frame. 2022Price: $9,000
5A5AFifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman inspired.40”x 40” Mixed Media on Canvas, in white wood floater frame 2022Price: $7,000
Late BloomerLate BloomerAs for relationships, always fashionably late.48” x 48” Oil on Canvas, in white wood floater frame 2022Price: ON SALE $6,000
Dirty LaundryDirty Laundry: Private matters whose public exposure brings distress and embarrassment Dirty Laundry traverses the systematic domestication of women, transcendentalism, the modernization of pragmatic feminism amongst the dichotomy of gender inequality. Four female figures transcend and merge into the mechanics of the machine, the task blurring what defines the women from their prescribed functions. An illusion of playful escape emerges while the geometric white lines suggest the systematic grid. Fanciful fabrics of pattern and colors, representational of life, immerse the women. Dirty laundry to be tasked. The work confers 19th Century “Cult of Domesticity” and the 20th Century “June Clever” while evaluating the ascent of women amongst modern day stereotypes and workplace/pay inequality. Oil on Canvas, 72” x 72”, 2019 Price: $17,000
The UnbreakablesThe UnbreakablesThe Unbreakables celebrates the female superpower of mental fortitude. Like diamonds since the beginning of time women bore the weight of the world and un-beheld led peoples, civilizations, and nations to endure and evolve.52” x 30” Mixed Media on Canvas, in white floater frame 202Price: $7,000
Domestic Situation
She's UnbreakableShe’s Unbreakable She’s Unbreakable celebrates the female superpower of mental fortitude. Like diamonds since the beginning of time women bore the weight of the world and un-beheld led peoples, civilizations, and nations to endure and evolve.40” x 30” Oil on Canvas, white floater frame, 2022Price: $ 6,000
ICON ICONGucci runway nostalgia for the compulsively couture. 46” x 32” Oil on Canvas, in white wood floater frame 2022Price: $7,000
Girl Painter Girl Painter Artist, a Domestic Situation. Self Portrait Oil on Canvas
Vanity Vanity Vanity explores the female sense of self. Camouflaged by a myriad of products, the heroine stands powerful before a glamorous mirror and vanity. Arms extended and facing upward, she simultaneously turns her back to the vanity. Victorious and confident, she meets the viewer. The painting recognizes that vanity can be a strength and weakness, depending on what she does with it. Oil on Canvas 72” x 48” in white floater frame. 2021Price: $15,000
In CrowdIn CrowdIf you are not in, you're out. 40” x 40” Oil on Canvas, in white wood floater frame. 2022Price: $7,000
Namaste Namaste (Bitches)Luxe yoga, she’ll drink to that. 48” x 36” Oil on Canvas, in white wood floater frame 2022Price: $7,500
Game Over Game OverArcade for modern women.28” x 60” Oil on Canvas, in white floater frame. 2022Price: $7,500
Out Of The ClosetOut of the Closet is a colorful fantasy exploring labels and the female condition. Entrapped in luxury, a closet of her own making, the heroine looks directly at the viewer, turns her back, and transcends. No shame in her situation, emerging or not, is a decision of her own making, and though she is somewhat disguised by her possessions, she is also empowered. Oil on Canvas, 72” x 72” 2020 in white floater frame
Aquasition Part of the Gallery, Aston Martin permanent collection.
Triplicate ServiceTriplicate ServiceLadies served first. 36” x 48” Oil on Canvas, in white wood floater frame 2022Price: $7,500
Shattered Glass Shattered GlassThere will be no glass above our head. We will rise. We will break barriers. Shattered Glass is a vibrant celebration. The movement of the composition is circular as it progresses to upper linear division. It contains five female figures within the circular containment. The figures are of one individual as they divide and merge to express movement. The lower left figure depicts a woman strong and confident looking up at her opposition. Her next movement is forward. She lunges in with extended elbow to penetrate the glass. Her hand is open to shield her face from the fallout and debris. She then turns her back to privately go further, higher, while still shielding her face. Turned and ascending she begins to rise shattering the barrier that restricted her. She continues to go higher and further as she exceeds the paintings surface to rise above the pictorial plane. The pallet of the background is allegiant and patriotic although the placement of color calls reference to a target. Shattered Glass is bold and bright as the female(s) is agile, colorful and strong. 60" x 48" Oil on Canvas, white floater frame, 2018Price $8,000
Out of the Closet, Oil on Canvas 72" x 72"
Dirty Laundry
aPOPcalypse aPOPcalypse apocalypse noun a prophetic revelation, especially concerning a cataclysm in which the forces of good permanently triumph over the forces of evil. pop verb (used without object), popped, pop·ping. 1. to make a short, quick, explosive sound: The cork popped. 2. to burst open with such a sound, as chestnuts or corn in roasting. pop art noun art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values. Pop art favored realism, everyday (even mundane) imagery, and heavy doses of irony and wit. Oil on Belgian Linen, 60” x 48”, 2019Price $8,000
American Woman 60" x 40" Oil on CanvasAmerican Woman is a coming of age celebration depicted through a tribal dance endowing and commending the strength of the American woman. The painting contains five female figures engaged in a circular interchange and movement. The Sunrise Ceremony serves many purposes in the American Indigenous community- personally, spiritually and communally - and is one of the most memorable and significant experiences of Indigenous females.The ceremony itself re-enacts the “myth of Creation”, and the girls connect deeply to spiritual heritage. In their connection they gain command over weaknesses and the dark forces of their nature, and come to know their own spiritual power, sacredness and goodness. The Sunrise Ceremony leads the girls to find their own ability to heal. They learn about what it means to become a woman, through attunement to the physical manifestations of womanhood as well as the development of physical strength and endurance. The ceremony requires rigorous physical training to prepare for the “sacred ordeal” of four days of dancing.I offer this painting, poised at a time when contemporary women and girls call to question and denounce the accepted “rites of passage and initiations” into American womanhood.
She Defies Gravity 48" x 36" Oil on Belgian Linen She Defies Gravity is composed of one female flying, reaching to the sky while she is still hovering over the place that once bound her. Graceful, she transcends the complicated and divided world of systems, structures, with highlights of nature, to reach and rise above. Three figures conjoin to depict her movement. The figures enlighten and shape almost as one. She is encouraged by the heavens as her hands reach above and beyond her.She Defies Gravity is representational of the heights contemporary girls and women are considering as they release the lies and shackles of misogyny. At a time when publically women are proclaiming #MeToo and denouncing the “casting couch” “boy takes girl” economy, She Defies Gravity celebrates the women who bravely rise.
Flying Girls 2018 Oil on Canvas 42” x 42”
Rilasciare Oil on Belgian Linen 30 x 40
l'ame de la femme
l'ame de la femme
Broken Treaties, Oil on Belgan Linen 48" x 36"Broken Treaties is historic and modern-day.For centuries treaties have defined the relationship between Native American people, their nations and the United States. Over 500 treaties were made with American Indian Tribes, primarily for land acquisitions, and 500 treaties were also broken, changed, or nullified when it served the government’s interest.This work depicts the land runs that revoked Native American territory given to them by the U.S. government after they were forced from their ancestral homelands. The “land rush” opened tribal lands for settlers to homestead based on a first arrival basis.The composition of Broken Treaties contains six horses charging and four figures invaded. They are splintered by themselves, the stampede and one another. The work’s four figures embody a Witness, a Refugee, a Demonstrator and a Deity.The Witness arises in the upper left corner perched above the incident; shoulder to hand elevated. The Refugee evacuates mid composition looking back at her intruder as she sprints forward. The Demonstrator; a male figure, squats at the bottom of the work. Eyes up, he extends one arm and hand with pointer finger ascending. His other hand treads downward to fist. Potently he proclaims the injustice.The Deity; their Great Spirit, surges from the scene in serenity and grace. Her face identifiable and lovely. She envelops the pilfering and enfolds the chaos within her limbs.Broken Treaties is pertinent now. Modern nations are calling for the elimination and restriction of immigration and refugees. At this same moment political groups, movements and governments are coming to cause the flight of populations from their native and ancestral lands. Broken Treaties recounts the first immigrants and refugees in the United States; the “colonists”, whom themselves escaped tyranny and religious persecution crudely to impose it on Native American tribes and nations. Repeatedly posing and rescinding treaties usurping native’s land, destroying their lives, resources and culture.
Every Child My Own,Oil on Canvas 42" Round
Ubi CaritasWhere there is love and true acts of charity, God is ever present.
Ghost Dance 72" x 48" Oil on Belgian Linen 2016
Procession of 172 Souls to Heaven (Oil on Masterpiece Elite Belgian Linen) 48"x36" 2015The “Procession of 172 Souls to Heaven” is my visualization of the energy and atmosphere as innocent souls pass after the loss of lives due to acts of terrorism and atrocities.This is my second work attempting to memorialize the innocent lives tragically taken as a result of the bombing of the federal Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. In this version I strive to capture the energy and movement of the loss of life minutes after the explosion. I imagine the sky filled with light as 168 souls are released from their bodies and the physical world. I have added additional souls of significant people in remembrance of their tragic deaths as they join the massive procession. Michele A. Utley VoigtOil on Belgian Linen Masterpiece Elite Canvas
Procession of 169 Souls to Heaven
O Thus She Stood, Oil on Belgian Linen, 72"x48"O Thus She Stood depicts five figures rising from face down crouch to stand up tall. The multiple figures are actually a single figure in the stages of being knocked to the ground and gathering herself to stand back up.Physical, internal, eternal, and or societal peace is never static. O Thus She Stood depicts the constant movement toward the resurrection of peace. It demonstrates the rise and fall of peace, tranquility and non-violence through the movement of a singular female figure pushing herself up from the ground, rising to her feet, obtaining her balance, standing in grace and lifting herself as if she herself experiences resurrection.The masking of the figure(s) allows anonymity and universality by detaching the viewer from real physical representation or recognition of the individual. The background is comprised of many planes divided. Chilled abstracted geometric shapes and shading demonstrate the energy, emotion, and intangibles of the peace making. A flat shadow grounds the progressive figures providing a realm of reality.The composition of the life size figures and electric bursts of shading are such that the viewers’ eyes are drawn up from the bottom of the canvas to the top and down again further expressing the continuum of the peace process
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Fait Accompli, Oil on Canvas, 36"x36" Fait Accompli: An accomplished, presumably irreversible deed or factA thing or act accomplished and presumably irreversibleAn action which has already been done and which cannot be changedFait Accompli depicts two figures one crouched and one extending, in the middle an infant. The crouched figure covers her heavy head while passing the child to the receiving figure. The background is divide and fragmented as the transaction is without comprehension.
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