Wendy Kveck's work confronts popular images and historical depictions of women as cultural markers through the mediums of painting, drawing, and performance. Informed by a feminist practice, her collaborative performances activate social perceptions and dialogue around vulnerability, chaos, agency and transformation. Her figurative paintings draw from these staged events, conjuring abject portraits of female archetypes - pageant queens, princesses, party girls, and “good eaters”. Kveck exhibits and lectures nationally and is a 2018 recipient of a Soaring Gardens Artist Retreat fellowship through the Ora Lerman Charitable Trust. She is an arts advocate through her various roles as an artist, educator, curator, and organizer. Her art and projects have been written about in regional and national publications including Hyperallergic and Southwest Contemporary. Kveck is the founder of Couch in the Desert, a collective curatorial project highlighting contemporary art and artists with ties to Las Vegas, Nevada, where she lives and works.