(Teresa Watson) The Phantom Kicks

gouache on paper 22" x 16.5" Born and raised in Texas, Teresa Watson is an illustrator and painter who makes work about her lived experiences as someone with schizoaffective disorder. Her comic "Welcome to the Covid-19 Mental Health Struggle" was featured in The New York Times. She has exhibited at Trash Lamb Gallery, La Luz de Jesus in Los Angeles, Hey There Projects, La Matadora Gallery in Joshua Tree, and Webb Gallery in Texas. She finds humor in chaos and creates art that juxtaposes dissimilar images to process confusion and triggering events.