The Exuberance Project

Women taking up space with joy, attitude and no apology.

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Long before being an artist even occurred to me, I’ve been drawn to images of exuberant, charismatic women. Women who know their power and relish it, who enjoy their bodies, delight in speaking their minds.

I only recently recognized what is glaringly obvious in retrospect. That all my representational work of women over the last four years - the tiny Post-its, face-sized mixed media portraits, the Esther paintings of my mom, the Scrappy Women celebrating unsung female artists - all of it has been about the same thing.

It’s been about answering the question asked in silly sing-song jest around my childhood dinner table when my mom had a lot to say:

“Esther, you wanna shut up?”

The answer is a resounding:

“No. Esther doesn’t wanna shut up.”

Esther and the rest of us want our voices heard. Loud and clear. Raw. Energetic.

Fun. Furious. Passionate.

Welcome to EXUBERANCE.

$1,400 “Who Would Wanna Hide This?”
24 x 24 in., mixed media on Arches oil paper

(SOLD) “Playin’ Around”
51 x 24 in., mixed media on butcher paper, framed, floated on acid free backing under museum glass (left)

$1,500 “Playin’ Around #2”
51 x 24 in., mixed media on butcher paper, framed, floated on acid free backing under museum glass (right)

(SOLD) “Things Are About To Get Interesting”
30 x 24 in., mixed media on canvas

(SOLD) “Anita”
24 x 24 in., mixed media on Arches oil paper