Artist statement: Frequently incorporating the female form, and with a focus on female sexuality, recurring themes examine the ambiguous space between opposite emotional or physical states. Beauty and ugliness, power and fragility, guilt and innocence, passion and passivity, etc. provide wide ranges in which to explore the connections between these poles. Although her former compositions could often be described as ambiguous narratives, most recently, Winik's work takes a closer view of the figure, settling on the face itself, absent of context.