Ayse Wilson

Boss Bitch

Brooklyn artist, Molly Herman, creates beautiful, colorful abstract paintings. She is most interested in playing with the language of abstraction. Her process is a search to find al...

Ayse Wilson is a Turkish-American artist who lives and lives and works in Connecticut. Her work draws from memory and emotion to remind viewers of youth, innocence and the timeless s...

Ayse Wilson is a Turkish-American artist who lives and lives and works in Connecticut. Her work draws from memory and emotion to remind viewers of youth, innocence and the timeless space we occupy when we are young. She creates lively and childlike characters, finding inspiration in the works of early Italian Renaissance masters such as Fra Angelico. Wilson graduated from Wellesley College in 1991, and pursued her education in Florence. She received her MFA at New York Academy of Art, and later worked as a painting assistant to Jeff Koons for two years. This current series employs the toile wallpaper samples that the artist had lying around her house during lockdown as a backdrop for ambiguous and complicated feelings toward quarantine and domestic confinement. In this work, she is hoping to narrate how fear of the pandemic unknown, coupled with household anxieties, and increased self-awareness contributed to the mixed emotions of security and hostility towards enforced domesticity within a masked world. The toile tradition represented a coincidental parallel with the COVID era rediscovery of old-fashioned pastoral lifestyles, and the embrace of self-reliant artisanal practices like cooking, gardening, sewing, and prescribed homeschooling. Her colorful inscriptions, some original, some appropriated, layer in our contemporary lifestyle, our modern methods of connectivity as well as our high-tech world. The punky playfulness of the neon and fluorescents contrasts with the backdrop of Fragonard-esque imagery and hopes to delivery her messages of love and connection, awareness and newness, hope and emotions, as well as the occasional glossily veiled hostility expressed in certain so-called “love” declarations. The phrases evolved from a previous series addressing the Me Too movement...

Brazilian artist, Clara Fialho, is based in New York. Her abstract work with bright and exuberant colors is inspired by her Latin heritage. She received her BFA from the prestigious...

Asserting Nashali’s power and autonomy, 'I'm THE BOSS' portrays a resilient woman challenging societal norms to affirm her rightful position. The sentiment of 'I love my Boss' transc...

IDGAF is a subtle image of one who love and gives a fuck but remembers to not give a fuck. A childlike essence of liberty, freedom yet full of love.

Gouache & graphite on paper

“Bitch” – Empowering Mixed-Media Large-Scale Painting by Michelle Thomas. “Bitch” is a striking original contemporary mixed-media painting by Michelle Thomas that transforms a provo...