Felt Cute, Might Delete Later

Felt Cute, Might Delete Later brings together artworks by Georgina Clapham, Laela White, and Jessica Wilcox. Through surrogate self portraits, each uniquely examines desire and notions of identity that bridge their digital and physical realities. They use humor as a means of self preservation to navigate our modern post-internet hellscape.

Wilcox’s figurative paintings and sculptures depict hypothetical and hyperbolic scenarios centered around performative masculinity. Her manly investigations stem from poking fun of her own desires, and fascination with the fragility of toxic masculinity.

White’s body of work explores identity through performative, surrogate, and nostalgic self portraiture. She navigates the unbreakable desire to create and seek joy, to dare to take up space as a brown woman, and to share her personal histories, subverting her own angst, desire, and dread in this current political climate, through humor and criticality. Clapham’s paintings use the tropes of advertising to explore the production of desire in millennial culture, with a focus on the resurgence of Y2K nostalgia. Her humorous surrogate self-portraits are layered with tongue-in-cheek references that traffic in meme-culture, exposing the dangers of constant social comparison. The paintings’ surface is built up using Early Modern European techniques, which mimic the flatness and allure of the screen.