Arizona State University expert directory

Forrest Solis is a figurative painter whose work explores the female experience from a psychological perspective. 

Her current body of work examines issues of desire and death through an autobiographical lens and critically examines the cultural expectations of mature sexuality. 

The dominant themes in her innovative research are adult-child relationships and gender normativity. Issues of the home, violence against women and childhood trauma have been central to her work. Her current body of work examines issues of desire and death through an autobiographical lens and critically examines the cultural expectations of mature sexuality. The imagery and content are formed of broken childhood memories and adult desires, where the past, present, and future collide.

Solis is the director of the School of Art. 

In 2015, Solis founded Creative Push, an ongoing art and oral history project about birth.