‘AutoAbstract Painting,' the title of Dominique’s PhD thesis project, 2021-current, is motivated by her research in color theories, phenomenology, feminist aesthetics, and autotheory. The title is intended as a philosophical, theoretical, and stylistic reference to Dominique's post post-minimal (body-centric), post-feminist (gender inclusive), art historically informed research. Her color palette is influenced by the Fitzpatrick Skin Type Scale, (aka SPF chart,) a Pantone SkinTone Guide, beauty industry product promotional color charts, pre-mixed or out-of-the-tube paint colors, the emoji skin-tone chart, (based on the Fitzpatrick Skin Type Scale,) and by her own olive skin color. Largely due to the skin tone references, many of the works readily lend themselves to psychosexual and/or abstracted figurative interpretations.

Some of the paintings in this gallery are executed in a gesturally abstract or painterly way that has been likened to graffiti, others are done in a geometric or non-objective style, including the large scale 3-part piece, 'Populus Humilis et Divinus (People, Humble and Divine),' 2023, shown as the lead painting here. It is simultaneously a nod to, as well as an antithetical comment on Barnett Newman's 1951 'Man Heroic and Sublime.' Her piece acts as both a psychological key and as a color key to the entire series. 

Dominique is especially influenced by Spiritualist Painting, including Cosmic Diagrams and Tantra Painting, and by the works of these 20th and 21st Century abstract painters… Hilma af Klint, Sonia Delaunay, Arshile Gorky, Willem deKooning, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Joan Mitchell, Mary Abbott, Jay DeFeo, Cy Twombly, Bridget Riley, Gene Davis, Sam Gilliam, Alma Thomas, Andy Warhol, Eva Hesse, Phillip Guston, Lucian Freud, Howard Hodgkin, Susan Rothenberg, Brice Marden, Sean Scully, and Joan Snyder.