~vanessa stockard~

"I paint from a head full of imagery... As a teenager I had a couple of cats. One was a Manx, and she was not a nice cat, but I loved her like crazy... In my practice, I draw on these saved mirages of cats, and dogs, people, landscapes, art, literature, the natural world and often myself, and seek to pull some of the parts together in a painted work, like an existential Frankenstein." -Vanessa Stockard (akbellingergallery)