30” x 30”
Acrylic, pastel écu on wood panel
2025
Pussy Riot is a raw, confrontational figurative painting exploring feminine multiplicity, protest, and psychic fragmentation. Set against a stark black ground punctuated by hand-painted pink stars, multiple female visages emerge, overlap, dissolve, and reassert themselves — tender, defiant, masked, and exposed all at once.
The work takes its title from the Russian feminist punk collective Pussy Riot, whose fearless opposition to authoritarianism and patriarchal control echoes throughout the painting’s emotional charge. Rather than a literal portrait, the painting functions as a psychological landscape — a chorus of voices, identities, and inner states occupying the same space.
Gestural mark-making, scrawled text, and symbolic elements move between beauty and abrasion, suggesting the tension between visibility and erasure, softness and rage. The rose, both blooming and unraveling, becomes a central motif of desire, resilience, and vulnerability.
Painted in acrylic on wood panel, Pussy Riot stands as an unapologetic statement on feminine power, resistance, and the refusal to be singular, silent, or contained.
30” x 30”
Acrylic, pastel écu on wood panel
2025
Pussy Riot is a raw, confrontational figurative painting exploring feminine multiplicity, protest, and psychic fragmentation. Set against a stark black ground punctuated by hand-painted pink stars, multiple female visages emerge, overlap, dissolve, and reassert themselves — tender, defiant, masked, and exposed all at once.
The work takes its title from the Russian feminist punk collective Pussy Riot, whose fearless opposition to authoritarianism and patriarchal control echoes throughout the painting’s emotional charge. Rather than a literal portrait, the painting functions as a psychological landscape — a chorus of voices, identities, and inner states occupying the same space.
Gestural mark-making, scrawled text, and symbolic elements move between beauty and abrasion, suggesting the tension between visibility and erasure, softness and rage. The rose, both blooming and unraveling, becomes a central motif of desire, resilience, and vulnerability.
Painted in acrylic on wood panel, Pussy Riot stands as an unapologetic statement on feminine power, resistance, and the refusal to be singular, silent, or contained.
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