"Vice Grip" is an award winning painting, placing 6th in the 'Outside the Box' category of the 2023 Members Only Competition by the Portrait Society of America; as well as an Honorable Mention award in the Miller Art Museum 49th Annual Juried Exhibition in Sturgeon Bay, WI.

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‘Vice Grip’ was a months long process of painting, reworking, specifying, and learning to be more vulnerable in my art.