Rosemary Meza-DesPlas – What You Whispered, Should Be Screamed

$6,000

SKU: 33634

Artwork Description

Rosemary Meza-DesPlas – What You Whispered, Should Be Screamed

Dimensions: 35 x 33 x 2.25” size type
Year: 2018
Medium: hand-sewn human gray hair and specialty fabric, thread on black twill fabric, gallery-wrapped, no glass

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.