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First Communion Painting

Alexandria Smith

United States

Painting, Oil on Other

Size: 0.4 W x 0.4 H x 1 D in

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oil on panel

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Painting:Oil on Other

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:0.4 W x 0.4 H x 1 D in

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Chronicling the experience of being an African American middle-class girl in present day society is the point of focus of my artwork. The desire and longing to belong is echoed in the portraits of these young preadolescent girls. Working through the discipline of drawing and painting, I have created works that explore the theme of cultural and sexual identity through the lens of childhood and adolescence. The lens of childhood is portrayed in a twisted yet intriguing way and simultaneously confronts the viewer with horror and humor. These emotive, visually alluring pictures depict scenes of young girls engaging in play that borders between sexual experimentation and innocence. By honing on the right moment and the in-betweens, there is just enough information to create a narrative and engagement with the viewer. This level of engagement is utilized to great effect but also aims to push a psychological agenda. The interactions of these girls within a middle class suburban home investigate the origins and manifestations of race and social taboo through an adolescent lens. Large scale Conte crayon and small pen and ink drawings are also included in this body of work. The subject of these drawings is the loosely autobiographical character of "Marjorie". Marjorie emerged out of the need for a costume on Halloween as a 9-yr. old and later the need for anonymity and the ability to translate personal insecurities into another malleable identity. Though the character of Marjorie is bound to a recent historical narrative, she is also a girl trapped in time-living in the present, lost in the past. Marjorie emerges from the two dimensional constraints of paper in a performance on a NYC playground. Lost in the mystical and the real, this narrative speaks to a larger story of the struggle towards womanhood and racial understanding, cultural alienation and surviving psychic trauma. Through this performance, Marjorie confronts the "real" world in search of home to determine a connection between place and memory. Inspired by the characterization of Claymation and cartoons, the history of illustration and painting and memories of my own life, these works probe into the idealized versions of childhood. The burden of realism is thwarted in these works by embracing the once dehumanized and outcast "others" and placing them in real, yet taboo situations.

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