This portrait is to honor Stacey Abram’s vision and ability to help all voices be heard. Let’s help Stacey get elected for Governor of Georgia 2022!
I am selling wood prints of this portrait of Stacey Abrams to help raise funds for her campaign for governor. The motif surrounding her is meant to represent the community, each holding up each other to create a community of support. Lift one and you lift all!
22% of each portrait purchased goes to Stacey Abrams campaign. (You can also go directly to her website to make a donation to her campaign. www.staceyabrams.com )
The artwork is printed on beautiful ¾” birch wood, available in 3 sizes and is an open edition.
Each artwork is print to order.
8”x8” - $100
12”x12” - $150
16”x16” - $200
Message or email me for more info or if you’d like to purchase a portrait!
GOD HAS GIVEN YOU MINDS
God Has Given You Minds is a collection of portraits of some of the women in the US Congress. They are clothed in suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s speech “Our Young Girls” 1872, and adorned by photos of documentation by Harris & Ewing of the suffrage movement protests in Washington DC 1917.
The speech is available in its entirety at http://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/stanton-our-girls-speech-text/
Incurable explores how we choose to physically create and present ourselves based on internal ideals that we have acquired over time. The forming of these internal ideals is consistently influenced by peers, family members, and by the constant barrage of imagery that surrounds us each day. The advent of Photoshop, advances in plastic surgery, and the plethora of media has helped us to maintain a standard of physical perfection that is essentially unattainable, keeping us on a never-ending quest to achieve the physical manifestation of an unrealizable internal ideal.
This work investigates how one can find one’s voice in this over stimulating world full of standards and ideas that tell us the right way to be. In my previous body of work, Incurable Perfection, the characters look to culture for guidance on how to create themselves. In Letting Go, the characters look within themselves for the answers of who they are, letting go of cultural standards and expectations. By taking a break from the chaos of daily life, they are able to connect with themselves through stillness and play; two ways to listen and discover one’s authentic self. The hope is that within these moments, the characters will let go of their expectations of how they should be, allowing space for their behaviors and appearances to reflect who they are.
