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Emily Zarse
Website
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<a href="https://www.emilyzarse.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.emilyzarse.com/</a>
Topic
mothering
maternal body
intergenerational connection
exhaustion
postpartum
breastfeeding
care
matrescene
maternochronics
Medium
fiber
natural dyes
found objects
Artist Statement
Cloth has a memory like the body. I create fabric installation that explore the precarity of the postpartum body. Residue of physical and emotional trauma are captured on the surface of the floating maternal forms. Color from foraged plants and “saddened” with iron and calcium, records the depletion of energy and essential nutrients used to grow new life.
Emily Zarse is an installation artist working with the language of natural dyes and fiber processes to explore the maternal body and matrescence. She received a degree in Costume and Textile History from Cornell University and is currently a MFA candidate at Indiana University.
Location
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Bloomington
Indiana
USA
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Emily Zarse
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Emily Zarse
breastfeeding
Care
exhaustion
fiber
found objects
intergenerational connection
maternal body
maternochronics
matrescence
mothering
natural dyes
postpartum
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<a href="http://www.kristinskees.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.kristinskees.com</a>
Medium
photography
fiber art
Location
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Virginia
USA
Artist Statement
The ongoing Cozy Portrait portrait series combines traditional women’s craft, contemporary DIY culture, portraiture, and a love of the unexpected and absurd. This work morphs and conforms to each person I photograph and the cozy is custom made for each subject. Reminiscent of an ill-fitting handmade sweater, the cozy represents the fine line between comfort and constriction. It is simultaneously a warm cocoon and a claustrophobic straight-jacket. It is this relationship of artist and subject that represents my own journey as a daughter and a mother. For me, these primal relationships are fraught with contradictions. Where protection becomes suppression, and one’s identity is consumed, blurred and defined by that relationship. In addition to the Cozy Portrait series, these themes of motherhood and identity are explored throughout my work, including the photographic series Mother/Artist, Yawning Beagles, Tiny Trophies, and others
Topic
caretaking
mothering
cozy
craft
fiber
knitting
cocoon
protecting
daughter
constriction
identity
motherhood
Exhibitions
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Cozy Portraits, solo exhibition, New Image Gallery, James Madison University, VA, 2018
Mother / Artist, solo exhibition, the Charles H. Taylor Art Center, Hampton, VA, 2018
Yawning Beagles, solo show, Charles H. Taylor Arts Center, Hampton, VA, 2013
Family Matters, PhotoPlace Gallery, (Online Annex), Middlebury, VT,, 2015
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Title
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Kristin Skees
caretaking
cocoon
constriction
cozy
craft
daughter
fiber
fiber art
identity
knitting
motherhood
mothering
photography
protecting
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<a href="http://www.diabassett.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.diabassett.com</a>
Medium
fiber
found objects
performance
painting
Location
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San Diego
California
USA
Topic
parenting
caretaking
breastfeeding
dyad relationship
microbiomes
touch
nurturing
napping
sleep
babyhood
toddlerhood
pregnancy
postpartum
anxiety
hapiness
physiology
nature
biology
Artist Statement
<span> I use distorted and erratic renditions of drawing and fiber techniques such as crocheting, weaving, and wrapping to build sculptural installations varying in size. My process begins when I encounter fabrics that are sourced from family and friends. The tactile experience of touching the fabrics can lead to an intimate, thoughtful meditation when I ponder the history of a garment. Who wore or used this? Where were they going or what were they doing when they used it? I may cut the fabric into long continuous thread, draw onto it, or sew it into a wearable sculpture. Dense forms and linear elements take shape as I let the qualities of the materials guide me. The improvisational aspect of my practice allows unpredictability to prosper.</span><br /><br /><span>Inspired by my own experience of entering motherhood, I want to show the power of the mother’s body and how she influences the infant physically as well as emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually. Sometimes my work takes shape as figurative drawings of the nursing relationship I have with my daughter. I incorporate repetitive text into the drawings that speak to the ever-changing mental space of becoming a mother—the anxiety and worry, the joy and gratitude. Other times my work becomes sculptural, utilizing the curvealinear forms found in nature and women’s bodies. Looking at nature’s processes of decay, entropy, rupture, and unraveling, I find an ever-increasing affinity to my body. Becoming a mother has begun to transform the art I make as I see the kinship to nature more clearly. I want viewers to reconnect with their own vulnerability as well as their strength, as motherhood has required I do so in a more profound way. Within this state of vulnerability and power, I believe we can access the sensitivity that will facilitate our collective empathy.</span>
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Title
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Dia Bassett
anxiety
babyhood
biology
breastfeeding
caretaking
dyad relationship
fiber
found objects
happiness
microbiomes
napping
nature
nurturing
painting
parenting
performance
physiology
postpartum
pregnancy
sleep
toddlerhood
touch
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<a href="http://www.ahreelee.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.ahreelee.com</a>
Medium
video
new media
textiles
Location
The location of the interview
Los Angeles
California
USA
Artist Statement
In the fall of 2018, I kept track of what I was doing all day long in a spreadsheet. Each activity I<br />assigned to one of half a dozen different categories, including child care, housework, art<br />practice, and sleep. I picked one week of that time period and during the course of my artist<br />residency at the Women’s Center for Creative Work in Los Angeles, turned it into Timesheet:<br />November 4–10, 2018, a work comprising seven weavings, one representing each day of that<br />week. I wove it during weekly studio hours, on my floor loom that I moved into the space for the<br />exhibition. By giving these ephemeral activities form through my weaving, I have created an<br />analog data visualization of invisible and undervalued domestic labor and transformed it into an<br />artwork with monetary and cultural value.
Topic
parenting
caretaking
caregiving
quantified self
weaving
textiles
fiber
labor
domestic labor
domestic
time
data visualization
tracking
visualization
capitalism
technology
industrialization
value
repetition
Exhibitions
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Pattern : Code, Women’s Center for Creative Work, Los Angeles, California. 2019
We Are Here, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California. 2020
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Ahree Lee
California
capitalism
caregiving
caretaking
data visualization
domestic labor
domestic time
fiber
industrialization
labor
Los Angeles
new media
parenting
quantified self
repetition
technology
textiles
tracking
USA
value
video
visualization
weaving textiles
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.cassiearnoldart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.cassiearnoldart.com</a>
Topic
female identity
miscarriage
communication
Medium
fibers
installation
Artist Statement
My current body of work explores the unspoken and taboo topics connected to miscarriage, pregnancy and the transformative female form. By using traditional fiber techniques, stereotypically associated with women, I hope to create more consistent and honest conversations through approachable art.
Location
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Denton
Texas
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/495">Painting at Night, Fort Houston Gallery, Nashville, TN</a>
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Cassie Arnold
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Cassie Arnold
fiber
installation
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<a href="http://www.brittneydenham.net/">http://www.brittneydenham.net/</a>
Topic
motherhood
mothering
birthing
home
Medium
fiber
printmaking
photography
Artist Statement
In 2018 while attending my grandmother’s funeral I found out I was pregnant. The timing of these two events felt cosmically connected. A person’s departure means another’s arrival. To say the phrase “full circle” was used emphatically is an understatement.
The Arrival examines the life altering complexities that come with motherhood. Complexities such as: the passing of traditions, constructing home, navigating all-nighters, growth charts, feeding schedules, all while trying to reconcile an identity crisis of being a mother and artist. Departing from who I was without a child, and arriving to who I am now as mother.
In this body of work, I use photography and printmaking techniques that make multiples or used processes that can be replicated. I also worked with cyanotypes, one of the first photographic processes used to produce copies, or blueprints. This process helps me to reference the beginning of my son’s life, but also a human coming from someone else, a copy of the original. Full circle.
Location
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Sheridan
Wyoming
USA
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Brittney Denham
Title
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Brittney Denham
birth
birthing
fiber
home
motherhood
mothering
photography
printmaking
USA
Wyoming
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<a href="https://sewingstories.com/">https://sewingstories.com/</a>
Medium
fiber
Location
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Westchester County
New York
Artist Statement
Being a parent, especially in today's frightening world, is not easy. Balancing that difficult task with art making is even harder. My art speaks to the challenges and joys of being both a mother and an artist.
Topic
mother guilt
raising kids in a frightening world
joys and parenthood
guilt
parenting
mother
motherhood and creative practice
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Heather G. Stoltz
fiber
guilt
joys and parenthood
mother
motherhood and creative practice
New York
parenting
Westchester County
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<a href="sarahdolanart.com">sarahdolanart.com</a>
Topic
nursing
sleep
naptime
breastfeeding
body
maternal body
c-section
Medium
fibers
printmaking
recycled materials
Artist Statement
In the second year following the birth of my daughter I began an artist residency in motherhood. For one year I made work during my daughter’s naptime. I created many bodies of work during my residency, using a variety of materials and processes. My works explore multiple aspects of motherhood including birth, the postpartum body, breastfeeding, and objects used for caretaking and play.
The Tender Objects series consists of small, pink, soft sculptures. These works are assembled from cut up pieces of a raincoat, which is meant to shield the body, but rendered useless to protect the body once severed. These pieces contemplate the defenselessness and many unknowns of the insides of our bodies.
Through the Motherbody series, I use materials from clothing that no longer fits my postpartum body. Each soft sculpture imagines some part of me, not unlike my daughters many stuffed animals, as a created comfort item. Filled with stuffing from a pregnancy pillow, they imitate plush objects that would soothe a child while simultaneously examining the immense changes and vulnerability of the body during and after pregnancy.
In the Motherbody Drawings series I draw the motherbody pieces, turning them into something diverging from the comfort item the mother body is perceived to be in our culture. While the drawings are still perceived as soft, they transform the physicality of the sculptures to sensuous and blossoming unknowns. These drawings examine the dichotomy of the mother figure, finding the tender with the intimate, and not separating the two.
The Nursing Pad series explores the enormous amounts of time and labor that are given to feeding an infant. Through the repetitive, labored motion of the embroidery process, I recall the repetition of the breastfeeding process and the sucking motion of the infant. Each piece is labored over. Some carry smaller amounts of embroidery, a recollection of the earliest days when my milk was meager and some are saturated with embroidery, a reconstruction of the soaking of the very same pads with my own milk.
Location
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Alexandria
Virginia
USA
Exhibitions
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<a href="https://artistparentindex.com/items/show/436" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Of Printbearing Age, 2019</a><br /><br /><a href="https://artistparentindex.com/items/show/523" target="_blank" rel="noopener">motHER/child, June-Aug 2020</a>
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Sarah Dolan
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Sarah Dolan
body
breastfeeding
fiber
nap
naptime
nursing
printmaking
recycled material
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<a href="http://mindysuewittock.com/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://mindysuewittock.com&source=gmail&ust=1558529991740000&usg=AFQjCNE_q8zcFGKriAyNrfYSyfoq16r4oQ" rel="noopener">mindysuewittock.com</a>
Topic
motherhood
nostalgia
play
memory
Medium
soft sculpture
fiber art
Artist Statement
<div><span>In my work I use sewing and stitching techniques to create soft sculptures and textiles that are inspired by nostalgia, motherhood, play and form. I gather domestic textiles and objects to build pieces that explore the intersection of my childhood memories and my current experiences in motherhood. As a mother working from my home studio, I am often stitching next to my daughter as she plays. It reminds me of my own childhood and I gather inspiration for the creation of my work. I use recycled domestic textiles imbued with memories; outgrown clothing, threadbare pillowcases, sun-bleached curtains, all of which add context and familiarity to the objects I create. Each piece is overrun with purposeful embellishment adding both physical and metaphorical layers.</span></div>
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Location
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Cedarburg
Wisconsin
USA
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Mindy Wittock
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Mindy Sue Wittock
artist residence in motherhood
fiber
memory
motherhood
nostalgia
play
soft sculpture
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<a href="http://www.margarettimbrell.com" target="_blank">www.margarettimbrell.com</a>
Topic
parenthood
data tracking
calendar
everyday life
mundane details
early parenthood
sleep deprivation
needlework
embroidery
data
data visualization
crying
Medium
fiber
Artist Statement
The Redwork Series documents sometimes mundane details of my life as a parent. Combined with crying children, lack of sleep, relationship changes, and other external stressors, early parenthood becomes a sort of flawed madness which I work capture in this series. Each piece incorporates traditional stitching techniques, invented needlework techniques, and data drawn from my daily life as a parent. The materials and embroidery styles directly represent details of my experience in parenthood. This series is made in a style called redwork. Redwork embroidery is quite literally red work; all the floss is red. It is a traditional European style of embroidery generally used for very domestic needlework (hand towels, aprons, tablecloths). It is stitched with red floss on white or natural colored fabric. Historically embroidery was a hobby of the upper classes and royalty. The cost of the silk floss and materials was very high until a color fast red dye developed. This allowed the middle classes to take up embroidery as a hobby. I stitch in redwork because it is recognized as a domestic and middle class style of needlework which reflects my life as a parent. In addition to working the series in redwork, I stitch each piece both front-wards and backwards. Generally the skill of a stitcher is judged by examining the back of their work. This means that both the front and backside of embroidery pieces must be well stitched to be acknowledged as a well made work. This feels very similar to parenthood. Thru social media and mommy bloggers, Martha Stewart culture and playground politics, our culture builds an impossible standard for parenthood much like making work that is as well executed on the back as it is on the front. By stitching the work in both manners, I aim to reveal my flaws as a stitcher and parent. This work is an effort to reveal my true self. For Looks Like You’ve Got Your Hands Full I’ve tracked each time someone has commented “looks like you’ve got your hands full” to me over the course of 2017. It won’t be completed until the year ends. I then stitched each date onto the respective months of my vintage stamped for embroidery tablecloth. I noticed that people repeat this specific phrase to me while I’m walking with my kids, or carrying them at the supermarket. Even at restaurants and the car wash. It’s interesting that the phrase is so consistently the same and seems to come from the same place within each person. It seems like a desire to engage and acknowledge my parenthood and the challenges of parenting young children, yet the conversation rarely progresses beyond this comment. It also seems that it occurs during a very specific period of time in parenthood. I doubt I will hear this comment as frequently when my children are teenagers. In a way this phrase is similar to a popular song that you hear all the time for a few months and then years later it reminds you of that specific Summer. As for 5 Days My One Year Olds Cried documents five specific days where I was learning and growing as a parent. Over the period of five days I tracked each time my then one year old twins cried. The piece is flawed and incomplete. One skein of red floss bled and stained the table cloth evoking a sense of interruption and imperfection. 5 Days works to capture that overwhelming emotion of being at a loss as to what to do while navigating unfamiliar terrain. It is a sort of snapshot of sitting at the table, with the nth cup of coffee at hand, hearing a child cry, struggling with uncertainty and the feeling of failing. The Redwork series is a very intimate glimpse of my experience as a parent, which is both highly universal and very specific to me and my life in the past two years. It aims to reflect the manner in which I navigate the world differently in my newish role as Mommy, and how the lens of interpersonal engagement shifted in the environment around me in response to this.
Location
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San Francisco
California
USA
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Margaret Timbrell
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Margaret Timbrell
California
crying
data
data tracking
data visualization
early parenthood
embroidery
everyday activities
everyday life
fiber
mundane details
needlework
San Francisco
sleep deprivation
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<a href="https://aprildauscha.com/section/454967-Bond.html">https://aprildauscha.com/section/454967-Bond.html</a>
Medium
fiber
sculpture
performance
video
Location
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Greenville
South Carolina
USA
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April Dauscha
fiber
Greenville
South Carolina
video
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<a href="http://chloe-irla.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://chloe-irla.com/</a>
Medium
painting
fiber
textile
mixed media
installation
Location
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Baltimore
Maryland
Artist Statement
<span>I maintain an interdisciplinary studio practice grounded in both traditional and alternative approaches to painting and drawing. My recent work investigates the data visualization of increments over specific time periods. I collect information within an established time constraint and then analyze the data set. Based on the conceptual direction of the project, I incorporate the use of textiles and digital media to visualize the research.<br /><br /> The <em>Year One</em> series is based on one year’s worth of data collected about my daughter’s first year of life. From January 18, 2015 to January 18, 2016, I tracked the times of each nursing session, pumping session, nightly sleep and morning wake-up, daytime nap, diaper, bath, bottle, and solid food acceptance. My initial goal was to create wool blankets based on the graph-like data visualizations, but as a new parent, I simply do not have the time to dedicate to hand-felting and sewing large-scale quilts at this point in my practice. I decided to utilize digital media to create the compositions, so my process began with hand-dyeing samples of wool, scanning the samples and adjusting them into digital files, and then arranging the “tiles” into blanket-like digital compositions. <br /><br /><em>Year One</em> allows me to compare data about my daughter’s growth and development, and also visualizes the absolute time commitment that goes into being a primary caregiver. Every hour of the day with an infant is busy, and with this project, each hour is also accounted for. I can compare my daughter’s first month of life to the last month of her first year, which shows a drastic difference in feeding and sleeping routines. The overall appearance of the compositions is similar to my initial goal of creating handmade wool blankets, but the process is much better suited to my busy, primary caregiving lifestyle.</span>
Topic
daughter
life
motherhood
parenthood
data
tracking
visualization
repetitive tasks
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Chloe Irla
data
daughter
fiber
installation
life
mixed media
motherhood
painting
parenthood
repetitive tasks
textile
tracking
visualization
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Decades of Dreaming of You 2012, hair embroidery on mother's (artist's) hair from gestation period, thread from unraveled pillowcase, 3 x 5 x 5". Text reads "Decades of Dreaming of You"
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.katekretz.com/work-by-series/#/new-gallery-2/" target="_blank">http://www.katekretz.com/work-by-series/#/new-gallery-2/</a>
Medium
sculpture
embroidery
hair
fiber
textile
Artist Statement
“I often experience news stories of inhumanity as a literal blow to my body, and carry the negative energy around with me until I process a way to remove it from my person through transformative creation. My work functions as a meditation, a healing prayer, a potent incantation to embed the finished object with as much power as possible, to rival the impact of that original negative impetus for making it. I am aiming for a beautiful, exquisitely-crafted gut punch.
I consider the inordinate amount of time invested in each piece as a gift given to the viewer. In this day and age, it often feels as though the earnest, cathectic things I make are an act of profound resistance: I give birth to the tactile as I am swallowed by the virtual. I obsess over craft as our world becomes disposable. I wield emotion in its messiness because it’s uncool. I work until my hands shake, because the world does not care.
I am banging my head against the wall, but the stain is beautiful.”
Topic
motherhood
gestation
motherhood and creative practice
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Title
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Kate Kretz
embroidery
fiber
gestation
hair
longing
motherhood
motherhood and art practice
sculpture
textile
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://madisonomahne.com/" target="_blank">http://madisonomahne.com/</a>
Medium
performance art
sculpture
drawing
fiber
Location
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Cleveland
Ohio
Artist Statement
WOMB PROJECT STATEMENT: This 9 month long documentation explores the physical changes artist, Madison Omahne experienced throughout her first pregnancy. By crocheting around herself during this period, she creates a "womb-like" soft sculpture, which protects and comforts her, just as her womb protects and comforts her growing baby. Omahne utilizes the repetitive process of crocheting, a traditional craft, to reflect on her pregnancy, her body, and her baby growing inside. As her baby continues to grow and begins to manipulate her body, it is apparent that the sculpture is doing the same. The more the baby grows, the more difficult it becomes for the artist to continue creating her work. However, it is inevitable that she continues. This is catharsis. At last, when the sculpture is complete it is then deconstructed by the artist to reveal the greatest work of art, her baby. <br /><br />BIO<br /><br /> Madison Omahne received her MFA in Sculpture at Brooklyn College in 2011, where she studied under renowned artists such as Vito Acconci and Patricia Cronin. She currently lives and works in her home studio with her husband, son, and two dogs in Cleveland, OH.
Topic
pregnancy
domestic objects
interior/exterior
womb
maternal body
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/290" target="_blank">Of Women</a>
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Title
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Madison Omahne
drawing
fiber
interior/exterior
maternal body
performance
performance art
pregnancy
sculpture
womb