Doe Eyes: 2015-16
Inspired by Erwin Blumenfeld's iconic 1950 Vogue cover, as well as the "face sheets" used by makeup artists, Doe Eyes is a series of small mixed media works where I distill feminine faces to only the features that are "acted upon" in beauty rituals. I then embellish these features with paint, crayon, and medium as if I were applying makeup.
It is through this repeated process of embellishment that I examine the often thin line between enhancement and distortion, beauty and clownishness, that can occur with makeup and other feminine beauty enhancements.
It is through this repeated process of embellishment that I examine the often thin line between enhancement and distortion, beauty and clownishness, that can occur with makeup and other feminine beauty enhancements.
