Mighty Woman with a Torch Painting

This painting is from a series that are my response to the current state of the world. The painting is titled after a line from the poem on the Statue of Liberty, The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus. In "A Mighty Woman with a Torch", the Statue is reimagined in a contemporary setting. The style is inspired by fifties' advertising using a gray underpainting on a white ground to question the norms regarding women's roles at that time. I use a glazing method of painting where color is created by layering glazes of pure color one atop another like sheets of colored glass; for example, where you see green, it is created by layering a pure yellow on a pure blue. The light passes through the layers, and the viewer's eye creates the color. Each layer of glaze takes 24 hours to dry and there might be 10 - 20 layers of glaze for each color change. The surface of the paintings dry to an enamel-like shine.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:30 W x 40 H x 1.5 D in

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