Devotion

Oil on canvas, 20 × 16 in, 2024

This work depicts veneration as a performance of suffering through the overconsumption of religious objects and rituals and as a form of penitential self-mortification. This compulsion to express subservience functions as a reparation for shame, illustrating how gendered expectations shape ritualized behavior.

Exhibitions:
2025 Few and Far Between Showcase, George Caleb Bingham Gallery, Columbia, MO
2025 University of Missouri Chancellor’s Arts Showcase, Columbia Art League, Columbia, MO
2024 Cycles and Perpetuation, University of Missouri Bingham Commons, Columbia, MO
2024 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition George Caleb Bingham Gallery, Columbia, MO

(Private collection of Nicole Monnier)