Cover Girl, 2025 Mixed Media, Rollers and Digital Art on Metal 30" x 40"

Doss researched vintage JET magazine covers from the 50s and 60s and noticed a trend of celebrities posing in front of bold colors and geometric designs. Doss views her grandmother, Sam Ella, as worthy of being on the cover of a magazine, so she creates a custom cover for her grandma centering the popular roller hairstyles in the 60s.

Can't Take My Crown, 2025 Mixed Media, Tiaras, Ribbon, Flower on Metal 30" x 40"

It is a cultural practice to dress Black children up in fancy gowns alongside a new hairstyle for special occasions and holidays such as Easter. Doss pays homage to this tradition by comparing the elaborate formal wear of Black children to upscale pageant attire.

To The Nines, 2025 Mixed Media, Vinyl, Ribbons, and Lace on Metal 30" x 40"

Doss celebrates church attire amongst Black girls within this print. Doss and her family would always wear bows, tiaras, and floral dresses to church and graduations. This extravagant apparel was also reflected in the women who would wear stunning hats or have their hair in curls.

Full Set, 2025 Mixed Media, Vinyl and Rhinestones on Metal 30" x 40"

Doss recently treated herself to a vacation to Costa Rica and visited a local nail salon. Nail art, specifically long nails with designs, are a Black cultural phenomena. Doss believes Black women deserve to pamper themselves and urges them to prioritize spending money on their desires in addition to their other expenses.

What Trina Said, 2025 Mixed Media, Vinyl and Belts on Metal 30" x 40"

Doss took pictures of her best friend to showcase the early 2000s fashion trends of True Religion jeans, lower back tattoos, and bikini tops. Doss grew up seeing her sisters and older cousins wear colorful belts from beauty supply stores. Often times, Doss would also hear her sisters listening to Trina who exemplified confidence within her music. Doss wrote her undergrad dissertation about the connections between objectification and empowerment within Trina's rap career and has always wanted to encapsulate Trina's aura within an artwork. Doss does just that with this print, using lyrics from a popular Trina song to invoke a braggadocious energy amongst Black women who wear what they want.

DIME, 2025 Mixed Media, Vinyl, Dimes, Digital Art on Metal 30" x 40"

Doss often heard her older cousins get referred to as "dimes" when they would get dressed up to go to parties or events. Doss carried this tradition on as she grew older. She feels liberated and attractive when wearing items such as heels and shorts. This assertion of agency over her wardrobe is the center of this work. Instead of dressing herself for the male gaze, she instead is guided by her own personal style.

GTA, 2025 Mixed Media, Vinyl and Digital Art on Metal 30" x 40"

Grand Theft Auto was a popular video game in the 2000s, but never had women characters as the main person. Doss always wanted more feminism and girlhood to be incorporated in the gaming world. So she answered her childhood wishes and created a reimagined GTA game that centers the beauty and fashion essentials for Black women such as mink lashes and gold bamboo earrings.

Perfect, 2025 30" x 40" Mixed Media, Vinyl and Digital Art on Metal

Doss critiques current beauty standards and urges Black women to love their bodies. Instagram, the model industry, television, and other platforms need to normalize and highlight all shapes and sizes. Doss creates two model comp cards of her Auntie Tressa's face to showcase these beauty ideals.

Princess, 2025 Mixed Media, Magazines on Vanity 31.5" x 16" x 53.5"

Doss reimagines a vanity through the decoupage of JET magazine photos. Doss built the vanity, then sourced a local record shop for vintage JET magazines to collect pictures of Black women from the 2000s and 90s. The photos represent influential hair products, makeup, fashions, and celebrities within Black culture. Doss hopes to uplift Black women who look in this vanity and remind them they are beautiful and there is a community of Black women always ready to uplift them.

black hair, 2025 Mixed Media, Poetry and Digital Art on Metal 30" x 40"

Doss wrote a poem reflecting upon her hair journey throughout her life. She symbolizes fires to the act of straightening her hair. Doss' relationship to her hair is at times representative of her identity as a Black woman, but at other times Doss' hair choices are spontaneous and rooted in a frequent desire to explore new looks.

Blessed, 2025 Mixed Media, Flowers, Crosses, Lace on Metal 30" x 40"

Doss' mother, Brenda, wore a gold cross necklace for years, and later passed the necklace onto Doss. This gold necklace was a family heirloom, but also a common accessory worn by religious/ spiritual women like Brenda. Brenda displays classic Black beauty trends such as gold jewelry, brown metallic lipstick, and a silk press hairstyle.

90s Hair Menu, 2025 Self Portrait Photography on Metal Prints 8" x 10" each

Black hair menus were seen in magazines and hair salons during the 90s and early 2000s to display a variety of popular hairstyles. Doss wanted to pay homage to these iconic hair menus by recreating her own with all pink hairstyles. Makeup, hairstyling, photography, and edits were completed by Doss.

Queen Brenda, 2018 Woodcut on Paper 11" x 15"

Portrait of Doss' mother

Protected, 2023 Mixed Media, Pearls, Vinyl, Lace, and Flowers on Sneakers

Custom sneakers

Protected, 2023 Mixed Media, Pearls, Vinyl, Lace, and Flowers on Sneakers.

Custom sneakers

School to Prison Pipeline Series (1/4), 2018 Mixed Media, Image Transfer, Woodcut, and Collage on Paper 10" x 12"

A lot of Black people who are incarcerated have been criminalized at early ages. From schools with clear backpacks and strict discipline policies, to being falsely accused and punished for crimes they are innocent of. Black youth grow up with stigmas placed onto them. These stigmas alongside failing school systems lead to actual imprisonment at early ages into adulthood.

School to Prison Pipeline Series (2/4), 2018 Mixed Media, Image Transfer, Woodcut, and Collage on Paper 10" x 12"

A lot of Black people who are incarcerated have been criminalized at early ages. From schools with clear backpacks and strict discipline policies, to being falsely accused and punished for crimes they are innocent of. Black youth grow up with stigmas placed onto them. These stigmas alongside failing school systems lead to actual imprisonment at early ages into adulthood.

School to Prison Pipeline Series (3/4), 2018 Mixed Media, Image Transfer, Woodcut, and Collage on Paper 10" x 12"

A lot of Black people who are incarcerated have been criminalized at early ages. From schools with clear backpacks and strict discipline policies, to being falsely accused and punished for crimes they are innocent of. Black youth grow up with stigmas placed onto them. These stigmas alongside failing school systems lead to actual imprisonment at early ages into adulthood.

School to Prison Pipeline Series (4/4), 2018 Mixed Media, Image Transfer, Woodcut, and Collage on Paper 10" x 12"

A lot of Black people who are incarcerated have been criminalized at early ages. From schools with clear backpacks and strict discipline policies, to being falsely accused and punished for crimes they are innocent of. Black youth grow up with stigmas placed onto them. These stigmas alongside failing school systems lead to actual imprisonment at early ages into adulthood.

Same Shackles, Different Decade, 2016 Silk Screen Print on Tea Dyed Paper 11" x 15"

Doss used her brother’s mugshot as inspiration for a remake of a slavery advertisement. She relates the treatment of inmates to the treatment Black people experienced during slavery. Historically and present day, Black people are experiencing oppression, servitude, and an absence of human rights.

Tell Me Your Experience, 2023 Mix Media: notebook paper on walls

Wall installation made from hundreds of sheets of notebook paper. The notebook paper is representative of the letters incarcerated folks use to communicate with their loved ones. This is an interactive installation piece where guests can write how they were impacted by the exhibition

The Whole Family Talented Series (Dream Career: Helping Hand), 2023 Mixed Media on Photos 4" x 6"

Doss interviewed her loved ones who had been incarcerated and asked them about their dream careers. Doss uses crystals, tools, digital art, tissue, etc. to reimagine the careers of her loved ones if they hadn't been to jail. When inmates come home it can be very hard for them to find work, but this series allows previously incarcerated people to have their dream job. The jobs include: entrepreneur, basketball player, mechanical engineer, rapper, good helper, and an innovator bringing restrooms to public transportation.

The Whole Family Talented Series (Dream Career: Mechanical Engineer), 2023 Mixed Media on Photos 8" x 10"

Doss interviewed her loved ones who had been incarcerated and asked them about their dream careers. Doss uses crystals, tools, digital art, tissue, etc. to reimagine the careers of her loved ones if they hadn't been to jail. When inmates come home it can be very hard for them to find work, but this series allows previously incarcerated people to have their dream job. The jobs include: entrepreneur, basketball player, mechanical engineer, rapper, good helper, and an innovator bringing restrooms to public transportation.

The Whole Family Talented Series (Dream Career: NBA Player), 2023 Mixed Media on Photos 5" x 7"

Doss interviewed her loved ones who had been incarcerated and asked them about their dream careers. Doss uses crystals, tools, digital art, tissue, etc. to reimagine the careers of her loved ones if they hadn't been to jail. When inmates come home it can be very hard for them to find work, but this series allows previously incarcerated people to have their dream job. The jobs include: entrepreneur, basketball player, mechanical engineer, rapper, good helper, and an innovator bringing restrooms to public transportation.

The Whole Family Talented Series (Dream Career: Entrepreneur), 2023 Mixed Media on Photos 5" x 7"

Doss interviewed her loved ones who had been incarcerated and asked them about their dream careers. Doss uses crystals, tools, digital art, tissue, etc. to reimagine the careers of her loved ones if they hadn't been to jail. When inmates come home it can be very hard for them to find work, but this series allows previously incarcerated people to have their dream job. The jobs include: entrepreneur, basketball player, mechanical engineer, rapper, good helper, and an innovator bringing restrooms to public transportation.