UMVA Gallery

Love/Rage: Goddess

May 7 - 29, 2021
UMVA Gallery
Virtual Exhibition
Co-curated by Ann Tracy and Christine Sullivan

Broken Beauty I, Monotype, 22 x 30 inches, 2019

Over the past several months I’ve been creating figurative monotypes, making use of reduced versions of my 24” x 36” drawings. The addition of viscosity (sticky ink rolled over oily ink) on the monotypes enables me to repeat forms and break down pieces of the human body. Some of the prints mimic Roman and Greek friezes, in an attempt to rearrange arms and legs to deconstruct the figure.

Some of the results are rough like stone, others smoother, in an attempt to show what’s natural, broken, and beautiful. The singling out of multiple shapes, and pieces of shapes, definitely describes some of the fragmentation I feel as a wife, mother, sister, daughter, friend. As an individual in the world. I definitely experience moments of rage and passion. Outrage, sensuality, fierceness, compassion.

There are probably many definitions of what a goddess might be. I know as a woman and as an individual in the world, there is rage that comes with love and the need to transcend one’s own pain in order to minister to the pain of others. Perhaps this is both the height and depth of humanness. Perhaps it is compassion that gives us super-human strength, so powerful, deep, and self-sacrificing that it might dare to compare being mortal with that of being a goddess?