Jackie Reeves: Best Laid Plans

“Best Laid Plans” features a series of large scale mixed media paintings created over the last two years, which reveal a personal narrative linking the artist’s past and present. Reeves uses a process of building up faint layers of paint to tell her story of becoming a U.S. citizen. “Over the last two years Americans have been engaged in a reckoning with their own history and the sobering realization that democracy is not assured.

During this time, I took an oath to defend the constitution by agreeing to take up arms if necessary, against enemies, foreign and domestic. I came to the realization that my best “weapons” are my voice, my paintbrush, and the exercising of my freedom of expression, which is also the greatest American gift worth defending.”