Emily Million http://emilymillion.posterous.com Visual artist posterous.com Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:03:00 -0800 Tentatively titled "The Butcher's Bride"--In progress http://emilymillion.posterous.com/tentatively-titled-the-butchers-bride-in-prog http://emilymillion.posterous.com/tentatively-titled-the-butchers-bride-in-prog

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Oil on wood, 48"x60"x3"

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16"x20" oil on canvas paper

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Took a break from this one, finishing it today.

"Cy Twombly died today"

15"x20" oil on canvas panel

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Brian, 15"x20" oil on canvas panel

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Girl with a Pearl Necklace:1

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Girl with a Pearl Necklace:2

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Portrait in Michael Kors:2

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Oil on wood, 24" x 32"--available at Fresh Gallery in Springfield, MO

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Oil on wood, 48" x 60"

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Oil on wood, 36" x 48"

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“[Woman is] divided into two irreconcilable ‘bodies’: her ‘natural’ body and her socially valued, exchangeable body…”      

            --Luce Irigaray

 

Western girlhood is rife with contradiction and confusion. Be strong yet meek. Be sexual yet chaste. Be independent yet codependent. Be self-reverent yet self-sacrificial. Be active yet passive. Perhaps this can be attributed to echoes of a severely patriarchal past and our transitioning from this toward a more egalitarian society. Regardless of the cause, it fosters a cultural pathology of woman whose identity is conflicted. She is perpetually at odds with herself and seeking, or rather waiting for, the “magical other” of whom she is derived and but a reflection.

Exploration and reconciliation of these seemingly contradictory “bodies” is the focus of this work. Each piece I create is built around the lone female protagonist. I reference Western myth and story through the lens of a contemporary woman artist. The scenes, while echoing reality are more solidly tied to an emotional landscape and a world that is neither literal nor conventional. The story has morphed into that of the feminine, fumbling her way through her cultural strangleholds back toward a more essential identity and nature.

“If we don’t invent a language…it will have too few gestures to accompany our story.” Through this body of work I am creating a visual language of and for the feminine story.

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Oil on wood, triptych, total dimensions 48" x 108"

Image 3: High on a hill was a lonely goatherd (detail), 48" x 60"

Image 4: Lily of the Valley (detail), 48" x 60"

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Image 1: Sophia and the Big, Red Apple, 48" x 60"

Image 2: Lily of the Valley, 48" x 60"

Image 3: Cinderella's Palace at 4 p.m., 48" x 108"

Image 4: High on a hill was a lonely goatherd, 48" x 60"

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