Cayla Birk

Over Series: B I G G I E · T U P A C, 2017

2017

Cayla is an outstanding young artist whose creative and intelligent mind thrive on a contemporary style. Her influences come from a wide array of writers, musicians, and epistemologi...

Cayla is an outstanding young artist whose creative and intelligent mind thrive on a contemporary style. Her influences come from a wide array of writers, musicians, and epistemologi...

In the series of paintings titled “That Feeling When,” Aldrich expands the excess of materials to large figure paintings and small, overfilled sculptures. Aldrich uses thick materials that protrude from the surface, reminding the viewer that the paintings are not only physical objects in themselves, but also create the illusion of the picture. The work employs a risky excess of material that borders on uncontrollable; becoming metaphoric for barely controlled femininity, the attraction and repulsion of materialism, and the body pressing against constraints. The figures in the paintings are seen from behind or have turned away. The viewer is put in a place of questioning whether they are a voyeur or a co-viewer with the figure of something deeper in the picture plane. The full body paintings of young women based on Nancy Drew...

My World is Full of Possibilities - Green 2021 Mixed media, acrylic paint and archival print on acrylic, recycled plastic, gold leaf, and mirror. Arica Hilton's "My World is Full o...