A re-imagining of women’s roles in art history.
In this series of photocomposites, I reference master paintings of European art history, with the intention to subvert the visual roles of the women in these paintings. My goal is to create an alternative art history lesson in which the viewer gazes on a woman who gazes decisively back. While my work builds on the attempts of other artists to locate themselves in a cultural visual history, the directed gaze of the women and the humor in the images set my work apart. By imaging my alternative visual history, I allude to the possibility of a different visual future, in which sexuality and agency belong to the women depicted in these images.
