Series: Thin as Our Skin
Bacterial leather, family mementos, botanical matter. Series of 34. Sizing varies, see below. 2021-26.
Series description: Experimental use of material in the Skins series addresses transformation. The series took root during a period of reading that included Botany Primer, a book by the artist’s maternal grandfather, Arthur T. Evans, that she has owned since childhood. Across these works, the boundaries between living and inert, natural and manufactured, personal and ecological become deliberately blurred.
Exhibition history:
- Refuge @ Art Cake Gallery, Brooklyn NY, October 2026
- Ineffable Touch @ A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn NY, November 2024Process note: Bacterial leather, grown from living cultures, incorporates family mementos and botanical matter into translucent membranes.
Photography: Matthew Sherman
1.
From left to right:
Dried Sea Turtle, 2024
vegan leather, sand
18 x 32 x 2.5 inches
Free Flung Skin, 2026
camp cotton laundry bag, vegan leather, plexiglass, African mahogany
38 x 24.5 inches
Free Flung Skin, 2026
camp cotton laundry bag, vegan leather, plexiglass, African mahogany
38 x 24.5 inches
Abstract Spheres, 2026
cotton laundry cloth, vegan leather, plexiglass African mahogany
25.5 x 18 inches
2.
From left to right:
Rosa was Premature, 2022
bone, latex, vegan leather, plexiglass, African mahogany
23 x 18 x 3 inches
She has Grown, 2022
silver necklace, kozo, vegan leather, plexiglass
23 x 18 x 1.5 inches
Rosa’s Gone, 2021
Vegan leather, dried flowers, African mahogany, plexi
23 x 18 x 1.5 inches
3.
From left to right, top to bottom:
Anna Lee Allen’s arms 1953, 2025
plexiglass, African mahogany
25 x 26 x 1.5 inches
George Floyd, 2022
vegan leather, plexi African mahogany
23 x 18 x 1.5 inches
Baptist Church Bombing, 2022
vegan leather, wood fabric burnt, plexi, African mahogany
23 x 18 x 1.5 inches
Black Lives Matter #1, 2024
vegan leather, noose of sickle plexi, African mahogany
23 x 30 x 4 inches
Black Lives Matter #3, 2024
vegan leather, noose of sickle plexi, African mahogany
23 x 30 x 4 inches
Black Lives Matter #2, 2024
vegan leather, noose of sickle plexi, African mahogany
23 x 30 x 4 inches
Bat Wing, 2026
vegan leather, dried ficus vine, plexiglass, African mahogany
23 x 28 x 3 inches
4.
Top row, left to right:
Clapping Hands, 2022
vegan leather, Mother’s kid gloves, plexi, African mahogany
23 x 18 x 1.5 inches
Azure Button, 2022
vegan leather, Mother’s kid glove pearl buttons, lilly seeds, plexi, African mahogany
23 x 18 x 1.5 inches
Holding Hands
mother’s kid gloves, vegan leather, plexi, African mahogany
23 x 18 x 1.5 inches
Placenta, Nora’s Womb, Katie’s Room, 2022
vegan leather, plexi, African mahogany
23 x 18 x 1.5 inches
Bottom row, left to right:
Glove with a Hole, 2022
vegan leather, Mother’s kid gloves, vintage embroidered place mat, plexi, African mahogany
23 x 18 x 1.5 inches
Absent Hole, 2022
vegan leather, plexi african mahogany
23 x 18 x 1.5 inches
Gaufrauged, 2022
vegan leather, plexi, African mahogany
23 x 18 x 1.5 inches
Nipple Slip, 2023
vegan leather, plexiglass, African mahogany
23 x 18 x 5.5 inches
5.
Top row, left to right:
Seed Slide
vegan leather, seeds, African mahogany
23 x 18 x 1.5 inches
Petals, 2024
vegan leather, dried rose petals, plexi, African mahogany
23 x 18 x 1.5 inches
Hand Print, 2023
vegan leather, plexi, African mahogany
23 x 18 x 1.5 inches
Seed Sheets, 2023
Vegan leather, seeds, plexi, African mahogany
23 x 18 x 1.5 inches
Bottom row, left to right:
Ancient, 2023
vegan leather, air pockets, vegan leather, plexi, African mahogany
23 x 18 x 1.5 inches
Seed Skin, 2024
vegan leather, plexi african mahogany
23 x 18 x 1.5 inches
Ancient Ocean Seaweed, 2023
leather, air pockets, African mahogany, plexi
23 x 18 x 1.5 inches
Petal Abstract, 2022
Petals, vegan leather, plexi, African mahogany
23 x 18 x 1.5 inches
