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Artist Parent Index
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<a href="http://www.noelash.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.noelash.com</a>
Topic
motherhood
childrearing
childbirth
Medium
oil painting
watercolor
woodworking
Artist Statement
For two months my daughter refused to bathe. What was once a non-issue now haunted us both, and we each had our coping mechanisms: she begging and wailing and writhing, I waiting her out, struggling to keep her little skull from dashing on the porcelain. My sanity always felt in peril, and I stared deep into the foggy glow of the tiled walls. I could never predict the transition from weeping into giggling, the point when her little person couldn’t pour all her focus onto fighting me. Distracted by the pleasure of warm water, she somehow forgot to keep crying, and I’d breathe to help my brain cool down.
These episodes became, for me, an example of the sheer pointless misery of many of the tasks of housewifing. Contrary to our culture’s deeply held belief that women’s biological need to nurture makes tending to her home a satisfaction, I find housework to be what it is: a chore. This includes many of the tasks involving my ofttimes delightful children. For me, last spring, the worst was the bath.
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/439">WHY MOM</a>
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Noël Ash
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Noël Ash
childbirth
childrearing
motherhood
oil painting
watercolor
woodworking
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Person
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Topic
motherhood
birth
blood
womb
yoni
breastfeeding
children
sex
grandmothers
symbolism
myth
feminism
Medium
acrylic
ink
collage
watercolor
mixed media
fiber
wheatpaste
Artist Statement
Tiana Traffas is currently creating a series titled Arcana Ma. Arcana meaning secrets or mysteries, Ma as in mother or motherhood: mysteries of motherhood. This ever unfolding body of work explores the taboos and experiences of motherhood through archetype, personal experience, mythology and symbolism from the ancient goddess cultures to modern-day mamas. It also includes work that views the other phases of womanhood, maiden to crone, and the life-death-rebirth cycle through the len of motherhood. Arcana Ma only exists because of her daughter's birth. The artist's initiation into motherhood cracked her wide open into a psychedelic and potent transformation, leaving her reborn on an emotional and spiritual level. The act of birth and the continuous trip of motherhood is the inspiration for this series.
Location
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La Crosse
Wisconsin
USA
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/439">WHY MOM</a>
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<a href="https://tianatraffasart.bigcartel.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://tianatraffasart.<wbr />bigcartel.com/</a>
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Tiana Traffas
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Tiana Traffas
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<a href="http://www.melissamurraynyc.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.melissamurraynyc.com</a>
Medium
watercolor
acrylic
ink on paper
Location
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Brooklyn
New York
Artist Statement
In my new series, Mother Tongue, I am exploring the emotions associated with Motherhood. Pulling imagery from personal domestic spaces I am creating a multidimensional metaphor reflecting on the moments one has when mothering another human being. This series is a space in which I explore feelings of loss, weight, clumsiness and a joy that can only come from selflessness. Each painting in the series represents a consecutive moment in a timeline from conception to present day. They are about making new spaces where there is no room, facing death while creating life, losing yourself through transformation, they are about fear and the unknown. Mother Tongue is the journey of giving yourself entirely to another person.
Topic
mother
mothering
motherhood
motherhood experience
mother and child
Exhibitions
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2019 Collage, Site:Brooklyn, NYC
2019 Every Woman Biennial, NYC
2018 Dynamic Intimacy, Kean University’s Howe Gallery, Union, NJ
2016 The Weight We Hold, Curated by Melissa Murray, Causey Contemporary, NYC
2016 Spring/Break Art Fair, NYC
2015 Echoes, A.I.R. Gallery, DUMBO, Brooklyn
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Melissa Murray
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<a href="http://Www.jilllavetsky.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Www.jilllavetsky.com</a> Instagram @jilllavetsky
Topic
breastfeeding
early motherhood
caring for an infant
mother baby bond
Medium
watercolor
Location
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Florida
USA
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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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Jill Lavetsky
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Jill Lavetsky
breastfeeding
caring for an infant
early motherhood
mother baby bond
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<a href="http://www.amyreidel.com">www.amyreidel.com</a>
Topic
caregiving
birth trauma
babies
mothers
c-section
trauma
Medium
multi-media
watercolor
mixed media
paper
canvas
Artist Statement
My current body of work on paper and canvas uses volatile watercolor, studio remnants, lint, medical tape, hot glue and more to abstractly illustrate what so many women go through but are not encouraged to discuss; the double-standards placed on our sexuality, the immense mental and physical space that caregiving demands, as well as traumas related to sexual assault, pregnancy and childbirth. Through traditional (paint) and symbolic (staples) mixed media, I portray the sweetness of imaginary babies and mothers, along with the gore of tumors, bleeding and C-section scars.
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Amy Reidel
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Amy Reidel
birth
birth trauma
bleeding
c-section
Care
care giving
mixed media
paper
pregnancy
sexuality
trauma
watercolor