Her Story - Cloud Dancer
"Cloud Dancer" [Her Story project]
acrylic on panel
32" x 16"
2025
This is the first painting that I have finished for my new "Her Story" project. My plan is to show a number of these paintings in an exhibition that I will be having at the Evanston Art Center opening February 21, 2026.
All of the paintings in this project will have the same size / proportions. All of the paintings will be black and white. And all of the paintings represent my daughter Temma (who is already the most frequently represented person in my art).
While it might seem obsessive to make so much art representing a single person, the reason that I do so is as a surrogate representation for the substantial community of profoundly disabled people who generally have very little representation. This lack is due to a well-meaning, but problematic prohibition of representing such people. Thus they are largely out of sight and out of mind in our culture. (See the documentary "Crip Camp" if you want a compelling look behind the curtain.)
And if it wasn't obvious, the project title "Her Story" is an intended twist of the potentially implicit bias of the word "history".
Her Story - Cloud Dancer
"Cloud Dancer" [Her Story project]
acrylic on panel
32" x 16"
2025
This is the first painting that I have finished for my new "Her Story" project. My plan is to show a number of these paintings in an exhibition that I will be having at the Evanston Art Center opening February 21, 2026.
All of the paintings in this project will have the same size / proportions. All of the paintings will be black and white. And all of the paintings represent my daughter Temma (who is already the most frequently represented person in my art).
While it might seem obsessive to make so much art representing a single person, the reason that I do so is as a surrogate representation for the substantial community of profoundly disabled people who generally have very little representation. This lack is due to a well-meaning, but problematic prohibition of representing such people. Thus they are largely out of sight and out of mind in our culture. (See the documentary "Crip Camp" if you want a compelling look behind the curtain.)
And if it wasn't obvious, the project title "Her Story" is an intended twist of the potentially implicit bias of the word "history".