Past Exhibitions
Thank you to all the galleries and artists for supporting me and providing space to show my work. Below you can view some of my past exhibitions, if you are interested in featuring my work in your gallery please reach out at anytime at bygoecookie@gmail.com. To view my resume, click here.
Life Cycles, 2023
This exhibition featured 21 oil paintings and two Japanese style books with hand-cut collages on handmade paper at the Slab Cinema Arthouse at the Bluestar Arts Complex in San Antonio TX. All frames were made by me. These 23 works are from the past three years. These works use humor to explore themes of death, rebirth, dreams and evolution. Many paintings are based on collages I made in the past.
The five small portraits are of my friends. they are live paintings done while watching their favorite movies. Other paintings feature my parents and myself. This show deals with grief, but
Thesis Show, 2022
The artwork below was featured in my senior thesis show at Trinity University at the completion of my Bachelor of Art degree in 2022. This show features two large oil paintings on canvas of a lizard and a frog, with a second painting on canvas attached using thread and stuffed with fiber fill. There are two small oil paintings of a cave. Close ups can be seen here.
There were three hand-bound books that the audience was invited to flip through. On every page of each of these books is a hand-cut collage. The collages in the book can be seen here.
Embrace, 2017
The artwork below was featured in my first solo exhibition in 2019. This show was at the AP Art Lab at the 1802 galleries in San Antonio, Texas. This show featured six oil on panel paintings of my friends teeth. Three of them are 30”x30”, and the other three are 15”x15” with gold and silver leaf. Each painting is named after the model.
I I chose to paint my friend’s teeth who had never had braces. At the time I was self conscious about my crooked teeth and this show touches on orthodontry as an often cosmetic practice and how straight white teeth have become socio-economically coded .
