Meditations on Being a Phoenix
Gallery 136½ at PhotoSynthesis
May. 2, 2024 - Apr. 30, 2015
136½ Pine Street
Manchester, Connecticut 6040
860-783-5443
The self-portraits in the series Meditations on Being a Phoenix use visual metaphors to relay the emotions and experiences from the artist’s life within a culture that participates in narrowly constructed ideals of what it means to be female, and considers how these constructs influence self-identity. The artwork combines photography with pigments and encaustic wax, which create surface marks that parallel the marks and impressions cultural expectations can make on an individual.
Funded in part by the Lesley University College of Art and Design Faculty Life and Development Committee.
Join us for an opening reception on May 2 from 5–7pm.