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Touching Colors began during a period of profound transition and deepened Roosevelt’s commitment to surrender within process. These paintings incorporate soils collected from places that marked her life, allowing geography, memory, and material to converge.
Each layer responds to the last, embedding time, movement, and encounter into the surface. Touch operates on multiple levels: hand to paint, paint to earth, earth to memory. The work becomes a record of accumulation and attentiveness, documenting what unfolds when intention and accident are allowed to coexist.
Clear Creek II
2022-2023
Acrylic, Ink, Oil Stick on Canvas
20 × 20 in
Clear Creek III (triptych)
2022-2023
Acrylic, Ink, Oil on Canvas
20 × 20 in
Color Study for Liz
2022
Ink on Paper
18 × 6 in
Ethers
2014-2018
Acrylic, and oil on canvas mounted on board
48 × 114 in
Goddess of Fair Park
2016-2019
Acrylic, Ink, Mixed Media and Oil on Canvas Mounted on Board
48 × 86 in
Gossamer Thread I
2016-2018
Acrylic, Mixed Media and Oil on Canvas Mounted on Board
24 × 39 in
Gossamer Thread II
2016-2018
Acrylic, Mixed Media and Oil on Canvas Mounted on Board
24 × 20 in
Hope - on the strangest sea
2014-2023
Acrylic, oil on canvas mounted on board
42 × 36 in
Hope - Is the Thing with Feathers I
2014-2023
Acrylic and oil on canvas mounted on board
72 × 42 in
Ladies In Blue
2017-2019
Acrylic, ink and oil on canvas mounted on board
89 × 115 in
Lakeside
c. 2017
Acrylic, ink and Oil on Canvas Mounted on Board
51 × 84 in
LIZ
2020-2024
Pastel, Acrylic and oil on Canvas Mounted on Board
58 × 36 in
MM I
2015-2018
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas Mounted on Board
72 × 84 in
Ode to Joan (study)
c. 2021
Acrylic and Oil on Board
10 × 12 in
Ode to Joan III
c. 2017
Acrylic, Mixed Media and Oil on Canvas Mounted on Board
64 × 44 in
Phlashes
c. 2019
Acrylic, and oil on Canvas Mounted on Board
44 × 70.5 in
Reflecting on Ladies in Blue
2022
Acrylic ink and oil on paper
18 × 6 in
Reflecting on Ladies in Blue I
2022
Acrylic, Ink and Oil on Paper
18 × 6 in
Study in Blue II
2017
Acrylic and Mixed Media Resin on Board
20 × 16 in
Super Ball
2016-2019
Acrylic, Mixed Media and Oil on Canvas Mounted on Board
52 × 84 in
Surrounding Cloud That Will Not Free My Soul (Valkyrie IV)
2018
Acrylic, Mixed Media with Oil on Canvas Mounted on Board
60 × 18 in
The Woods
2023
Mixed Media on Paper
6 × 6 in
Untitled (TS)
2023
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Paper
5 × 7 in
WHY o WHY
c. 2019
Acrylic, Mixed Media and Oil on Board
24 × 24 in