C. Lucy R. Whitehead (b 1991) makes figures that blur the line between body, object and role, inhabiting landscapes and interiors where they perform roles that never fully belong to them.
These entities masquerade as people while stretching, compressing, and dissolving into their environments, teetering between the uncanny and the familiar.The canvas holds them as though in suspension, like specimens preserved in a jar, contained, displayed, and transformed into spectacle. Within these frames, the figures echo the boxes and stereotypes that shape daily life, straining against boundaries that both define and restrict them.