2019
My great-aunt, Maria Suszynska-Bartman, was a prominent Polish writer/poet who chronicled her experiences in female labor and concentration camps during WWII in a 1971 book, Nieswiete Meczennice. The book is written in Polish and was published by a defunct communist press yet offers vivid imagery of both the horrors of war and persecution as well as the rare moments of beauty, fidelity, and humanity.
I am creating a new series of 8-10 medium-to-large oils based upon this book, seeking to foster attention and discussion about the loss of our cultural and basic, humanistic convictions due to generational time-passing.
Honestly - every time I walk by a millennial on a smartphone or hear people talk about some meme they saw on Facebook, I'm reminded of society's need to refresh these lessons of historical inhumanity that seem to have been forgotten/neglected by so many - and the need to see this series to its end and hopeful promise.
I am creating a new series of 8-10 medium-to-large oils based upon this book, seeking to foster attention and discussion about the loss of our cultural and basic, humanistic convictions due to generational time-passing.
Honestly - every time I walk by a millennial on a smartphone or hear people talk about some meme they saw on Facebook, I'm reminded of society's need to refresh these lessons of historical inhumanity that seem to have been forgotten/neglected by so many - and the need to see this series to its end and hopeful promise.
2018
These works continue the theme of presenting expressions of motherhood in theatrical compositions, incorporating nuances of contemporary culture and events. Much of my time in 2018 was spent creating a series of commissioned work in a style not my own, thus my own production was less than prolific.
2017
In these oils, I am considering the emotional psyche of motherhood in works that are intended to be both lush fairy tales and disquieting scenarios.
