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Bami Adedoyin, Brooklyn, NY
Mohd Fuad Arif, Malaysia
Megan Bisbee, Alfred, NY
Missy Carr, Washington, DC
Kristin Carroll, Boston, MA
Tony Conrad, Buffalo, NY
Kristin Carroll, Boston, MA
Tony Conrad, Buffalo, NY
Lara Davis, Providence, RI
Cindy DeFelice, Brockport, NY
Ghen Dennis, Buffalo, NY
Leigh Ann Francis, New Brunswick, NJ
Chifumi Fujisawa, Mosumoto, Japan
Amy Goldberg, Rochester, NY
Bethany Goldpaugh Brown, Kingston, NY
Virva Hepolampi, Helsinki, Finland
James Holland, Southbury, CT and Rochester, NY
Kelly Jacobson, Kansas City, MO
Akil Kirlew, Brooklyn, NY
Caroline Koebel, Buffalo, NY
Jennifer Little, Rochester, NY
Edna Madera, Rochester, NY
Darin Martin, Oakland, CA
Tammy McGovern, Buffalo, NY
Colleen Vera Melisz, Buffalo/Rochester, NY
Toni Mosley, Auckland, New Zealand
Tomoya Murazumi, Kanazawa City, Japan
Akane Nakamori, Kanazawa City, Japan
Stephanie Nolasco, New York, NY
Natasha Pachano, Costa Rica
Warren Peace, Jersey City, NJ
Anjanel Dawn Pinet, Rochester, NY
Mima Simic, Croatia
Joan E. Stoltman, Buffalo, NY
Diane Teramana, Kingston, NY
Angela Tessier Kanazawa City, Japan
Andy Tetzlaff, Kanazawa City, Japan
Matthew Underwood, Boston, MA
Adam Weekley, Buffalo, NY
wolfgrrrl sometimes billijo, Rochester, NY
Walter Wright, Lowell, MA
Ami Yamasaki, Kanazawa City, Japan
Ojima Yukari, Kanazawa City, Japan
Karen Y. Zhang, Beijing, China |
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Rachael Hetzel
Rachael Hetzel When I was a child my grandmother would tell me a story about the short, fat but beautiful Oma and the tall, handsome Opa. The tall, handsome Opa fell in love with some mermaids and swam out to sea with them. Eventually the mermaids left him and he cried for help. The short, fat but beautiful Oma floated out to sea and saved the tall, handsome Opa and they lived happily ever after. As I became an adult I learned that the story was really about my grandfather's infidelity and my grandmother's ability to keep her family together.
My artwork revolves around themes of feminism and memory. Within this feminist background are issues of gendered roles within the family structure. I seek to understand and relate the causes of oppression within the family structure and to reveal hidden ways in which women wield power within their families.
Although memory is defined as a retaining and recalling of past experiences, the act of recollection is fluid and may not be recalled perfectly. Memory can be reconstructed to fit a particular cultural or personal belief system. These reconstructed memories, or myths, can be passed down through generations in a similar fashion to real memories.
Through storytelling memory is created, affirmed, and passed between people. Once a story has been told, it becomes the mental property of the listener. I have claimed the stories my grandmother told me as a child, which were really life lessons disguised as myth, and have begun to construct my own visual language. I question the authenticity of specific memories and myths while exploring conventional roles of women within the family structure. This is spurred on by my grandmother's subversion and manipulation of the patriarchal system in which she lived.
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Untitled, Screenprint
Printed Specialties, Artist Book
Things Will Get Better I, Intaglio
Things Will Get Better III, Intaglio
Untitled, Screenprint
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