At the Museum after O'Keeffe

My series At the Museum is about making two disparate things work together. Each painting pairs a work of art hanging in a museum gallery with an individual cow responding to it. The series began with an unusual commission from a friend, who asked me to paint a cow before her favorite work in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Charles Demuth's I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold (1928). I was taken by the challenge of painting a recognizable picture within a picture, and then pairing it with a cow that captures the embedded work's color, form, mood, and sensibility. The playful and unexpected encounters staged within these paintings reflect the many ways that art moves us as individuals. Every cow at the museum embodies art as experience.