I paint mutilated women wearing poignant expressions. They are a satire of sexual objectification and consumption that consciously interrupts the male gaze. It is inspired by the frustration, bordering on futility, of women’s efforts to define themselves within a kyriarchy. These paintings explore the fluidity of identity, and a person’s ability to change and reconstruct themselves in response to set systems. I integrate the literary notions of body horror, the uncanny and the abject into my work to understand the unfeminine and unexpressed violence in young women’s internal experiences. These are a catalog of women’s attempts to assert power and control over their own bodies.

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​Education

BA     2013
University of Texas at Dallas


Exhibitions

2017
Girl, Interrupted, Metropolis Collective, Mechanicsburg, PA

2016
Microcosm: Dioramas & Tiny Worlds, Metropolis Collective, Mechanicsburg, PA
Destroy To Create, The MakeSpace, Harrisburg, PA
Solo Exhibition, LGBT Center of Central Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
Kapow, Metropolis Collective, Mechanicsburg, PA
Figuratively Speaking, Harrisburg Art Association, Harrisburg, PA

2015
​Consumed, Metropolis Collective, Mechanicsburg, PA
Figuratively Speaking, Harrisburg Art Association, Harrisburg, PA

2014
Solo Exhibition, Alchemy of Art, Baltimore, MD
Femme Fatale, Metropolis Collective, Mechanicsburg, PA
The Process, Metropolis Collective, Mechanicsburg, PA
Carnival of Kings, Metropolis Collective, Mechanicsburg, PA
Figuratively Speaking, Harrisburg Art Association, Honorable Mention, Harrisburg, PA

2013
Solo Exhibition, Townehouse Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
 
2012
Solo Exhibition, Decompression, University of Texas at Dallas Visual Arts Gallery, Dallas, Tx
 
2012
Spring Student Show, University of Texas at Dallas Visual Arts Gallery, Dean’s Award, Dallas, Tx
 
2011
Fresh Meat, 500x, Juror Eric Swenson, Dallas, Tx
 
Bibliography

2017
ZOE QUINN WAS RIGHT II, self published, Washington, DC

2016
ZOE QUINN WAS RIGHT, self published, Washington, DC
'Kings and Queens and Guillotines', Hungover, Ink and Drink Comics, St. Louis, MI

2013
‘Sister’, Run: A Comic Anthology, Comic Creators’ Coffee Club, St. Louis, MI
#Cumskull #1, self published, New York, NY

2011
The Uncanny Valley and Beyond, self published, Dallas, Tx

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