Artwork Description
Rosemary Meza-DesPlas – 3. Graces, Nalgonas, Marias
Dimensions: 34 x 38 x 2.25″ framed
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Medium: hand-sewn human gray hair, specialty fabric, black twill, and thread
Rosemary Meza-DesPlas is a multidisciplinary artist who works in drawing, painting, installation, fiber art, performance, and video. Meza-DesPlas explores sociocultural issues through an intersectional feminist lens. Her artwork, centered upon the human figure, reflects the female experience within a patriarchal society and serves to amplify the voices of women. Hand-stitched hair works, one focus in her studio practice, serve as an archive of her body and reflect her aging process. The materiality of hair coincides with feminism and ethnicity at the point it speaks to issues of body image, femininity, and identity. Rosemary Meza-DesPlas examines how resilient women navigate and overcome obstacles, including political, economic, social, and cultural, to advance a future wherein gender parity is the norm.