how do our pieces fit? (Schiele Nude Study) (2020) ceramic tile and thin-set mortar mounted on plywood

I have always felt impacted by Egon Schiele’s line quality and use of color in his portraits. I like this nude in particular because her elbow provides geometric intrigue, breaking the flat, rectangular canvas. Playing on trowel lines used in tiling as an industrial process, I also play with my family’s history of construction as it relates to my artistic practice. To be this nude is to break barriers, as well as breaking the barriers of traditional practices residing in class consciousness and blue-collar work in a white-collar world.