Courtland Mead is a contemporary figurative painter who lives and works in Louisville, Kentucky. Having grown up in close proximity to the natural world, she now uses this connection to nature to inform her paintings as she investigates the connections between America’s modern-day culture and the subhuman labels we attach to women through animalistic comparisons. Her work explores the anxiety, chaos, and claustrophobia that survivors of harassment in their daily lives as women. Mead invites us to partake in an allegorical world filled with invigorating paranoia that illustrates a Fox Hunts as more than meets the eye. Her illustratively fluid paintings are an experience of visual and mental disruption that intrigue and titillate the imagination. Mead’s use of organic shapes and circumfluous paint application in hopes of triggering a response of alleviated anxiety from her viewers. Mead’s love for painting as a medium began in 2009. This passion cultivated and grew throughout her teenage years, ultimately resulting in her pursuit of her Bachelor in Fine Arts at the University of Louisville. She is currently a graduate student at EKU working towards obtaining her MAT degree in the winter of 2023.