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essie somma
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painter + former flight risk
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Highwayman, oil on canvas, 16x20”, 2025

#oilpainting #figurativeart #cyborg #feministart #tricksters #palodurocanyon
December 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Miss Atomic Bomb, oil on canvas, 18x24”, 2025

#oilpainting #figurepainting #atomic #biggulp #feministart #trickster #glitchfeminism
December 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Save a Brush, Build a Home, 14x18”, oil on canvas, 2025

#oilpainting #portraitpainting #surrealart #womenartists #bluejay #birdart
June 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Tension (Maybe It’s Wanderlust, Maybe It’s Neo-colonialism), oil on wood, 14x18”, 2025

#oilpainting #wanderlust #contemporarypainting #collageart #realism #surrealart #womenartists
June 9, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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black, white, and red all over, oil on wood, 16x16”, 2025

#oilpainting #selfportrait #realism #salmonhats #orcas #red
March 31, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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The Secret Pathos of Nature’s Loveliness, oil on wood, 18x 24”, 2025
#bigbrother #oilpainting #surrealart
March 19, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Southern Live Oak Hammock, oil on exposed cradled wood, 24x36”, 2025
#figurativepainting #surrealart #contemporaryoilpainting #southernartists
two women hold each other, their bodies missing from the forms of their clothes. Surrounded by blue and green Southern Live Oak branches and an osprey perched atop one of the figures. (detail) two women hold each other, their bodies missing from the forms of their clothes. Surrounded by blue and green Southern Live Oak branches and an osprey perched atop one of the figures. this image is a detail shot taken of the two figures and osprey from the shoulders up
February 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Sympathy + Relationships, colored pencil, paper, accordion-style book, 2024
#bookbinding #bookarts #coloredpencil
February 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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dwarf palmetto (study), oil on wood, 8x10”, 2025

#oilpainting #realisticpainting
painted palm fronds of the dwarf palmetto layer on top of each other with powder blue wallpaper behind them.
February 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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grief is a clown, oil on wood, 8x10”, 2025

an appropriate first painting of the year
painting of a woman crying with makeup streaming down her face and a big smile. her skin is showered in orange and gold light while the shadows and makeup are rendered blue.
January 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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event horizon, oil on paper, 15.5x17.5”, 2024
a magenta and orange female fragmented figure dances through a deserted landscape in a yellow corduroy vest with a water monitor layer across her back
January 28, 2025 at 12:59 AM