NO DIRECT IMAGES because there's a note on the bio saying not to use images without comping and i'm not sure what the limits of that are, so instead all images are linked to their website source.
Mentioned to me by Leah Cooper, whose insight and advice i found extremely helpful. Went to grad school with Leah Cooper; prior to that worked as an illustrator. Makes work to do a lot with narrative and gender. ALLEGORICAL, like my stuff.
Great technical skill-- one of Leah's comments was "and she can draw. MAN can she draw."
Works with publishers, teaches, and makes her own work.
I was told that she adapts fairytales to say things about today's perception of women and such
Interesting technical choice: Website changes color to fit the work being shown. very effective.
Signs work with a monogram.
Some drawings appear to be precursors to paintings, others not so much.
sketch and work are very similar; sketch seems to be a light-dark study; should consider doing something like that.
Markmaking strong in the main work but selective. nondistracting. very much are marks contributing to the illustrative whole rather than marks for their own accord-- for example, i nthe sky above is the strongest presence of marks. Other marks persence in scale textureand rock.
Color for color's sake seems less of a focus, but it is still lyrical. These paintings are more about the whole than the fragmentary parts. Strong narrative obvious. All elements, including pose and background, speak to narrative. Great clarity of imagery.
Even works with multiple figures, each figure is a whole that seems to contribute to narrative. Some fragmentary, but all contribute. Each treated with some level of seriousness, but do not draw focus away from central figure.
Drawings very clear. I was told she is a great draw-er. thi smuch is very clear.
which itself should be considered a work of art becuase those answers are as lovely as her painting. This person is smart. great, great, great respect.
"A woman who is free, not only earns her own money, does the work she wants, gets the education she needs, but is unencumbered by any religious ideology that would place restraints on her choices for procreation, sexual expression, or childrearing. A woman who is free makes it her responsibility to extirpate any and all harmful ideological fetters that keep her from achieving her goals. A woman who is free insists that anyone who shares her life with her does half of the unpaid household labor duties, including his share of rearing their children. A woman who is free speaks her mind and insists on justice for those less able to speak for themselves. A man is truly free by all the same tokens."
when asked what people should take away from her work:
"I think the main focus of my work is to make marginalized groups visible, to give unpaid labor a face, to uncover the truth behind the old stories which have been santized. I feel like a miner, digging at the rock, trying to uncover what has been buried for so long. My goal is to show that it is possible for women to be strong without compromise, and for men to be pretty without apology. This direction most certainly labels me as a feminist artist, and more partcularly, an LGBT artist, but I am hoping that my work has even broader activist appeal as these ideas take hold and people begin to recognize that they’re actually seeing hemselves in the images."
Relevance:
this is also an LGBT artist working in the mediums and genre I like, with strong narrative imagery.
Very much have felt he want to see MY OWN PEOPLE in media.
This is an artist who says 'man and woman are free by the same token' and i can further distill that
to mean that to refer to all people.
Do/Learn:
narrative clarity; clarity of image and of story. The archaological concept of "Aesthetics" (Does it communicate what it is meant to communicate to its intended audience. does it do what it is meant to.)
skill, technical skill. Develop this, endlessly, through drawing and studies and work.
implication of narrative; what it is trying to say and waht that means. Kest is using extant mythologies and using it to say something about the status quo, about gender, and about the role of storyelling in society and the role of the people who CONTROL mythology. keep layers of meaning in mind while working.
make sure all things in painting are in service to that painting.
Source:
Official website (from which i've drawn the bulk of these pictures)
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