MIRROR PAINTINGS: GOLD LEAF & TEXT SERIES
This series of mirror paintings incorporates gold leaf and language, both of which are complex and fragile. The use of mirrors and resin makes the paintings literally heavier, symbolizing the significant weight words carry in our lives. After living abroad for several years, I became more attuned to how Americans speak, which led to the creation of “So Busy,” the first painting in this series, inspired by these observations.
The works in rose gold and shades of pink are painted using unconventional materials such as makeup and nail polish, alongside tinted metal leaf and resin. These paintings explore themes of language, the #MeToo movement, and the growing prominence of feminism. The combination of materials and subject matter reflects the delicate yet powerful nature of these ideas.
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Dimensions: : 12”W x 12”H x 1.5”D
Medium: Acrylic, gold leaf, nail polish, make up, mirror tile, and resin on panel
Additional: Unframed • Sides are gold leaf • Painting comes wired & ready to hang
This painting is part of an ongoing series about the written and spoken word and how language shapes an identity and defines culture. The works are made primarily of gold leaf because much like language, gold leaf is beautiful but complicated and fragile; it can be durable and last decades or destroyed in seconds if handled improperly. The mirror as canvas highlights the notion of identity, and the resin reinforces this concept of self-reflection.
This series started as a response to the reverse culture shock I experienced when I moved back to the States after many years abroad; although English is my native language, upon returning there was much ambiguity in the context and manners of others’ use of the language that I had never noticed before.
As the concept of this series expanded, I incorporated rose gold leaf and various shades of pink metal leaf into the work. I eventually started painting with makeup and nail polish as a subtle response to the #metoo movement and the rising popularity of feminism. Since some of my large abstract paintings are about paradoxes and the coexistence of opposites, I chose the phrase “hello gorgeous” because of its various interpretations as it can have different meanings depending on the context and speaker.
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Dimensions: : 12”W x 12”H x 1.5”D
Medium: Gold leaf, mirror tile, acrylic, plywood, and resin on panel
Additional: Unframed • Sides are gold leaf • Painting comes wired & ready to hang
ORIGINAL IS SOLD. CLICK HERE TO INQUIRE ABOUT COMMISSION
Dimensions: : 12”W x 12”H x 1”D
Medium: Acrylic, gold leaf, mirror tile, and resin on panel
Additional: Unframed • Sides are gold leaf • Painting comes wired & ready to hang
Dimensions: : 12”W x 12”H x 1”D
Medium: Acrylic, pink metal leaf, mirror tile, plywood, and resin on panel
Additional: Unframed • Sides are pink metal leaf • Painting comes wired & ready to hang
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Title: oh okay
Dimensions: : 10”W x 10”H x 1.5”D
Medium: Acrylic, rose gold leaf, and epoxy resin on wood panel
Additional: Unframed • Sides are rose gold leaf • Painting comes wired & ready to hang
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Dimensions: : 12”W x 12”H x 1.5”D
Medium: Acrylic, rose gold leaf, mirror tile, and resin on panel
Additional: Sold Unframed • Sides are rose gold leaf • Painting comes wired & ready to hang. This painting was featured in the book Oh Hell No! published by Chronicle Books in 2021
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AVAILABLE IN GOLD OR ROSE GOLD
Dimensions: : 12”W x 12”H x 1.5”D
Medium: Acrylic, gold leaf, mirror tile, and resin on wood panel
Additional: Unframed • Sides of panel are gold leaf • Painting comes wired & ready to hang
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Dimensions: 10”W x 10”H x 1.5”D
Medium: metal leaf, mirror tile, acrylic, and resin on panel
Additional: Unframed • Sides are gold leaf • Painting comes wired & ready to hang
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Dimensions: 12”W x 12”H x 1.5”D
Medium: rose gold metal leaf, mirror tile, acrylic, and resin on panel
Additional: Unframed • Sides are Rowe gold metal leaf • Painting comes wired & ready to hang
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Dimensions: : 12”W x 12”H x 1”D
Medium: rose gold metal leaf, mirror tile, acrylic, and resin on wood panel
Additional: Unframed • Sides are gold leaf • Painting comes wired & ready to hang
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Title: GOOD AS GOLD
Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 1.5"D
Medium: Gold leaf, acrylic, mirror tile, plywood, and epoxy resin on panel
Title: GOLD STANDARD
Dimensions: : 24”H x 36”W
Medium: Gold leaf, acrylic, plywood, and resin on panel
Price: $2500
Additional: Unframed • Sides are gold • Painting comes wired & ready to hang
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Dimensions: 12”W x 12”H x 1.5”D
Medium: metal leaf, mirror tile, acrylic, and resin on panel
Additional: Unframed • Sides are silver metal leaf • Painting comes wired & ready to hang
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Dimensions: : 12”W x 12”H x 1.5”D
Medium: Acrylic, gold leaf, mirror tile, and resin on panel
Additional: Unframed • Sides are gold leaf • Painting comes wired & ready to hang
I first came across “colpo di fulmine” in a story by Italo Calvino. The phrase is the Italian equivalent of “love at first sight”. But when translated word by word, the expression implies to be struck by lighting since colpo is the word for “hit” and fulmine is “a bolt of lightning”. Some of my monochromatic paintings refer to the coexistence of opposing elements (ie light and dark), and this theme of contrast has unconsciously carried over into my gold leaf text paintings. The phrases or words in my paintings are selected because there is more than one interpretation and also because I like the word(s). I was therefore drawn to colpo di fulmine because it simultaneously embodies sentiments of pleasure (falling in love) and pain (being struck and possibly killed by lightning). There is something poetic albeit disturbing about the idea that one might die when falling in love.
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Dimensions: 12”W x 12”H x 1.5”D
Medium: metal leaf, mirror tile, acrylic, and resin on panel
Additional: Unframed • Sides are gold leaf • Painting comes wired & ready to hang
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Title: hustler (gold)
Dimensions: : 12”W x 12”H x 1”D
Medium: Gold leaf, mirror tile, acrylic, and epoxy resin on wood panel
Additional: Unframed • Sides are gold • Painting comes wired & ready to hang
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Dimensions: 12”W x 12”H x 1”D
Medium: metal leaf, mirror tile, acrylic, and epoxy resin on panel
Additional: Unframed • Sides are gold leaf • Painting comes wired & ready to hang
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Title: ghetto
Dimensions: : 12”W x 12”H x 1”D
Medium: Gold leaf, mirror tile, acrylic, and epoxy resin on wood panel
Additional: Unframed • Sides are gold • Painting comes wired & ready to hang
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Dimensions: : 12”W x 12”H x 1”D
Medium: Acrylic, gold leaf, mirror tile, and resin on panel
Additional: Unframed • Sides are gold leaf • Painting comes wired & ready to hang
Dimensions: : 12”W x 12”H x 1.5”D
Medium: Gold leaf, mirror tile, acrylic, and resin on panel
Additional: Unframed • Sides are gold • Painting comes wired & ready to hang
ORIGINAL IS SOLD. CLICK HERE TO INQUIRE ABOUT ORDERING WORK AS COMMISSION
Dimensions: 12”W x 12”H x 1.5”D
Medium: gold leaf, mirror tile, acrylic, and epoxy resin on panel
Additional: Unframed • Sides are gold leaf • Painting comes wired & ready to hang
ORIGINAL IS SOLD. CLICK HERE TO INQUIRE ABOUT ORDERING WORK AS COMMISSION
Dimensions: : 12”W x 12”H x 1.5”D
Medium: Gold leaf, acrylic, and resin on panel
Additional: Unframed • Sides are rose gold • Painting comes wired & ready to hang
ORIGINAL IS SOLD. CLICK HERE TO INQUIRE ABOUT ORDERING WORK AS COMMISSION
Dimensions: 12”W x 12”H x 1.5”D
Medium: metal leaf, mirror tile, acrylic, and epoxy resin on panel
Additional: Unframed • Sides are gold leaf • Painting comes wired & ready to hang
ORIGINAL IS SOLD. CLICK HERE TO INQUIRE ABOUT ORDERING WORK AS COMMISSION
Dimensions: : 12”W x 12”H x 1.5”D
Medium: Metal leaf, acrylic, nail polish, makeup, mirror tile, and resin on panel
Additional: Unframed • Sides are gold leaf • Painting comes wired & ready to hang
This painting is part of an ongoing series about the written and spoken word and how language shapes an identity and defines culture. The works are made primarily of gold leaf because much like language, gold leaf is beautiful but complicated and fragile; it can be durable and last decades or destroyed in seconds if handled improperly. The mirror as canvas highlights the notion of identity, and the resin reinforces this concept of self-reflection. The resin is intentionally applied imperfectly to reiterate the beauty in characteristics often described as flaws.
This series started as a response to the reverse culture shock I experienced when I moved back to the States after many years abroad; although English is my native language, upon returning there was much ambiguity in the context and manners of others’ use of the language that I had never noticed before.
As the concept of this series expanded, I incorporated rose gold leaf and various shades of pink metal leaf into the work. I eventually started painting with makeup and nail polish as a subtle response to the #metoo movement and the rising popularity of feminism. Since some of my large abstract paintings are about paradoxes and the coexistence of opposites, I chose the phrase “hey beautiful” because of its various interpretations as it can have different meanings depending on the context and speaker.