Artist’s Statement
Woman: Undefined is a collection of abstract, multimedia pieces endeavoring to deconstruct womanhood as a particular shape or role and represent it as the essence of a person. The work centres around intersectional feminism, nature and human form.
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Artist’s Statement
My still life portraits investigate issues of women’s empowerment and changing identity. Starting with paper photographs of women, I fold, tear, and crumple the images to give them a new 3rd dimension, communicating both disruption and resilience. I make large paintings of the fragile paper constructions to fix transitional moments in a solid form.
As an American female raised in the 1980s and 90s, I …
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Talie Zrihen is a first-generation American poet from Chicago. They hand make and self publish their works including big words/little mouth, go f(ind) yourself, and this is not a poem, this is an apology, all released in 2017.
Their work addresses both the political and spiritual aspects …
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I work with domestic settings and distorted figuration, and the characters in my photographs transform themselves using basic materials including purses, pillows and their own hair. I use commonplace objects in combination with the human figure, or substitute objects for the figure to convey feelings of loneliness and comfort, as well as the need for physical and mental protection. The objects used in the photographs are …
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This body of work will continue, as a collection of textile texts, to write its own meaning. It seems I will always be learning this language.
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