Painting

Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/10177/40388

Browse By

Now showing 1 - 3 of 3

Ro Hebert 2025
(2025-04-17) Hebert, Ro
Imagine yourself here is a collection of objects exploring ideas of queerness in rural america. I assert that capitalism charges a premium for the culture people living in the margins bring to urban areas. By moving ourselves out into rural spaces we are able to restructure community and create land sovereignty, food security, and a close connection to our natural world. These objects look at what we would build in our new world.
Noel Waite 2025
(2025-04) Waite, Noel
My paintings examine the symbolic power of the faery figure through the lens of ancient Pagan Irish mythology and contemporary feminist critique. Drawing on the Tuatha Dé Danann myth, the work examines the entanglement of nature, femininity, and marginalization. The project is an 18-foot double-sided curved canvas depicting reimagined faery beings who embody a vast spectrum of behaviors—from nurturing to vengeful, from benevolent to perilous. This work functions as a form of "practical fantasy," engaging with historical and contemporary notions of faeries while also processing personal experiences. The myth reflects the tension between reality and fantasy, expressing both feminine power and the social structures that confine it. Far from mere creatures of idyllic beauty, the Tuatha Dé symbolize change, defiance, and transformation against societal norms. They signify an eternal metamorphosis cycle, a rebellion against conformity, and a celebration of individual transcendence. Their essence predates Christian patriarchy, rooted in oral tradition, mystery, and imagination. They are timeless spirits, guardians of birth, life, and death mysteries. With the arrival of Christianity in Ireland, traditional supernatural beliefs merged with dogma that sought to control women's bodies, leading to the demonization of the fae as the desire to control women and the fear of the feminine body became intertwined. By reimagining the myth, this work explores feminist anxieties and the long history of misogyny embedded in the figure of the fairy.
Shaun Crabb, 2025
(2025-02-25) Crabb, Shaun
This project, Genderfluid, is a call for liberation and rebellion against our current administration and the legislation that seeks to erase the trans identity from existence. My mural takes the approach of resistance through a self referential figure, who perches in the volatile waves of a stormy sea. They are braced against the pounding walls of water, their position taking a stance of power, and to the top left of this piece, we can see a glow of a sun setting, cascading light onto the ocean as well as the figure This piece was created with interior house paint on concrete and brick, and stands approximately 17’x13’ feet tall. This mural seeks to discuss several themes, tackling them all individually, with its main talking points being about the relationship between our bodies and bodies of water. Water is a vital source for us, it keeps our bodies functioning, but also can be a representation of gender identity and transition. As water cycles through our body, it inherently becomes intertwined with our gender and sexuality, which is constantly changing and fluid. Other themes are discussed in this mural, like the lesbian identity and its place historically, and how this influences the fight for liberation from oppressive forces. Typically, lesbian identities get striked as being a “lesser-sin”, something that isn't taken as seriously as its male counterparts, and often is seen as a “phase”. Through centuries, lesbians have fought in different ways for visibility through art and literature, and oftentimes hid sapphic themes in stories and visuals, even in pious pieces depicting Christ and nuns. I also discuss themes of fatness and fat identity in my work, as fat people have exclusively experienced oppression and erasure. I intersect these two discussions by highlighting the fat female experience, which for decades has grown into a tumultuous relationship between fat female bodies and society's pressures and expectations. I then go on to discuss how the fat female body is a threat to the patriarchy, because it shows living authentically despite what is put in place around you that says otherwise. Overall, my mural intersects the relationships and experiences of fatness, lesbianism, and transgenderism, as while they are all facets of my identity, they are all currently at threat of erasure from our current administration. By using water as not just a representation for transition and gender identity, but also for hate and bigotry and the relationship between it and our society, I bridge the gap between these two and highlight rebellion, resistance, and liberation. It’s important to remain unified and together as a community as the erasure of trans identities becomes more rampant, and through organized rebellion, an oppressive regime can be defeated.

Browse By

Recent Submissions