Hides
Role
Personal project
Medium
acrylic on paper
Size
Lifesize
This is my thesis, my final project for my MFA in Illustration from SVA.
Exhibited at SVA Chelsea Gallery, May 10-22, 2026.
Opening Reception May 11th, 5-8pm.
There is a kind of armor that looks like joy. That is round and soft and a little absurd. That you put on in the morning not to fight, but to survive. To be looked at without being seen.
And then there is the body underneath. The postures say what their outer skins don’t. Slightly too much. Slightly wrong.
The horns weren’t given. They were chosen.
Hides is a series of five life-size acrylic paintings on paper, each cut to the silhouette of its figure and shown together as a suite. Painted in fluorescent color with bold, mosaic-like brushwork. With gold and copper horns catching the light against neutral skin. The figures meet you at eye level. They are life-size for a reason. You are not looking at them. You are standing among them.
