becca conrad-whitehead

Studio20C

Studio 20C - old chalkboard space became "processing" and paintbrush cleaning site, resulting in DECADE DECAY, a collection of phrases of songs, quotes, and reflections from 2011-2021. Original is 98"x54".

in pieces

This series began in the Spring of 2025 in part to figure out how to put the pieces of our world back together and being overwhelmed with all the pieces of my life that were taking up space. Letters, books, maps, and any old scrap of paper became fair game for layering into the work, visually providing texture, directing the story to be told, as well as serving as both an anchor and a home for that which was taking up space.

the in-between

The Muses' slippery and elusive slide of 2018 continued through the pandemic and the recovery years. The creative work in that time period that followed to completion was sporadic - a few of those images are here.

2017/2018

While no specific theme emerged in the chaos of 2017/2018, work continues and evolves and a few of those pieces are featured here.

home

Two things I should say about this series. This iconic house shape inserted itself into my work this past year, and I have embraced it for what it lends graphically to the composition as well as for its capabilities in storytelling. The work is a combined response to childhood memories, the landscape of the fields where I live, and the awareness of what building, leaving, creating, and losing a home, both figuratively and literally, can mean in the human experience. And it is in the expression of that human experience that I find the intersection of chaos and order, where the energy of the mark plays against the severity of line.

boundaries ll

Recent work from 2014-2015 that culminated in one person exhibit at Eno, Durango, Colorado

the up and down of it

Opening Sept 25 The Smiley Building, Durango, CO

12x12

Twelve years after my first daughter was born and twelve years since I worked to create a solid body of art I began this series I call 12x12. This series is the result from the discipline of creating 12 pieces, 12 inches by 12 inches square to begin to express those 12 years of gestation.

Boundaries

2012-2013