Slugs
Visual Arts Center
Austin, TX
April 18
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May 10, 2025
These drawings reference fragments from memory, dreams, jokes, or diary entries
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coquina shells burrow into my thighs, a fish grows a pair of human legs, a bouncy castle sprouts a tongue, hair, and feet.
Within this work, I extended the language of drawing through interventions such as embossing, frottage, and site-responsive wall drawing, translating graphite’s intimacy into new material registers. Grounded in the sensorial and corporeal, these works ask what it feels like to have a body and what a body can hold.
This body of work represents my graduate thesis, shown at the Visual Arts Center alongside the work of my wonderful colleagues at the University of Texas in our exhibition Acceleration Without Arrival
(Documentation by Phoebe Shuman-Goodier,
Tova Katzman, &
Alex Boeschenstein)
I’ll lick your ears against revenge. Can you hear me?, Graphite on Wall, 142 x 202 inches, 2025
One nail drives out another, Graphite on Paper, 73 x 20.5 inches, 2024
Belly Button Still Life, Graphite on Wall, 230 x 288 inches, 2025
(Detail)
I wonder what it feels like to be the sand, Graphite on Cream Paper, 53 x 78 inches, 2024
Body Habitus, Graphite on Cream Paper, 56.6 x 71.75 inches, 2025
Blades and Lotion, Graphite on Paper, 75.5 x 88 inches, 2024
Gillette, Graphite on Cream Paper, 51 x 119 inches, 2025
Do this until it doesn’t hurt anymore, Graphite on Paper, 50.25 x 148 inches, 2025
(Detail)
(Detail)