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Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 52 W x 66 H x 0.1 D in
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I painted this in response to news I received from a geneticist about a deletion on my 2nd chromosome. It's a disconcerting experience-finding out that there are parts of you that are "missing" and you've passed something onto your children that may impact their livelihood. I spiraled for the first 2 weeks after that phone call, overwhelmed by the feelings of loss, guilt, confusion, and shame I was experiencing. By the time I was finally able to start processing it in the studio, I was reeling less from those emotions and rooted more in wonderment and gratitude for how dynamic and resilient my children are in spite of the challenges they face. I was grateful as well that I have paint to turn to as I manage my own struggles with bipolar disorder and continued healing from trauma in my childhood. I began this piece mindful of all I've been given in this life that make up for whatever I may be lacking genetically and otherwise. I channeled all of that into this piece as I contemplated what our formation process during conception might look like visually. I used high flow acrylic paint, charcoal, water, and my hands to create it. It came from my gut as opposed to my head or heart, with the color choice, expressive marks, and strokes made with my hands guided purely by intuition. It's painted on unstretched primed cotton canvas and will require framing for hanging.
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:52 W x 66 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships Rolled in a Tube
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Bio: An acclaimed visual artist and writer, A’Driane Nieves is also the founder of an arts collective and art magazine, and U.S. Air Force veteran. Her interdisciplinary practice focuses on the epigenetic, psychological, and social-emotional impacts of trauma—inherited, historical, personal —exposing how it shapes, alters, and redefines identity over the course of our lives. Through abstract forms and composition, she gives visible shape to the internal biological and emotional processes of adaptation, recovery, healing, and transformation. She believes that creating and viewing visual art that addresses difficult topics can serve as a catalyst for personal growth & social change. In 2018 Nieves founded Tessera Arts Collective, a not-for-profit serving women and non-binary abstract artists of color. Nieves' paintings are on view at public institutions and in private collections in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Statement: My work is not representative of the external; rather about the impact of the external on our identities. It is about our Black bodies, experiences, traumas & triumphs, healing, & identities from an internal perspective. Each piece is a part of the body, psyche, and soul turned inside out; the intimate recesses, fault lines, eroded sediment, gravity wells, multitudes, & universes we contain as we navigate a society that judges us by what can be seen with the eye. If figurative, portrait, & other representative visual works of art are the organs, muscles & bones…then abstract is the marrow, the synovial fluid, the neural pathways, the central nervous system, the vitreous body through which we view and process experience. I use raw emotions, expressive marks, gestural lines, and abstract form to give name to time and place as well as the “how” and “what”. Doing so allows for an intimate, vulnerable, and honest examination of what shapes our identities over the course of our lives and drives our behaviors; conditioned and otherwise. It all comes from an intuitive, spiritual place that draws upon my own experiences from childhood to present. I have known displacement, disembodiment, and disassociation intimately as an individual, and our collective experience with each across the diaspora is encoded in my DNA. As a survivor of abuse, painting is an excavation of everything I hid in my mind and body for survival during childhood.
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