DIORAMAS
Marley Wisby (They/them)
HomeBodies
2021 Acrylic on canvas 36 x 48 in Gender is often imparted on objects that have no inherent connection to gender. In this HomeBodies, my body—painted in thick and bright colors—illuminates a diorama full of objects that I see as manifestations of my gender. In doing so I put my nonbinary body into the canon of gendered objects while also calling attention to the arbitrary nature of such distinctions. |
Soft Home
2021 Found wood, found fabric, batting, embroidery floss 10 x 10.5 x 9 in This little squashy house is what I imagine a house would be like if it were to look as comforting as it feels. Both enveloped and threatened by a harder harsher world around it, this home is irregular and soft and embroidered in the style of a crazy quilt to emulate the comfort and mild chaos of Home. -Marley Wisby |
Altar
2020 Acrylic on canvas 16 x 24 in Coming to realize I identified as nonbinary and going through life for the past six years carrying that identity has involved a series of symbolic choices and changes. Altar is just what it says, an altar to that journey. Each square on the crazy quilt and each item on the altar represents a choice or an action —external or internal—that played an important role in my little march toward self-acceptance. |
Courtney Whitlow (She/her)
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^ RCA Loudspeaker House
18 x 6 x 15 in Collection of Courtney Whitlow < Gardner’s Bench
10 x 10 x 12 in Collection of Courtney Whitlow |
Page Turner (She/her)
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Seeker Sisters
2022 10 x 10 x 10 in This diorama is a nod to one of the most prominent of painters within Mormon culture, Minerva Teichert (1888-1976) and the wandering search through culture and spirituality that the last two generations of mormon feminists have found themselves in. The architectural structure refers to the unusual arches in the mormon temple at Manti, UT, the curtains characteristic of mormon temple ritual, and the temple’s focus on nature. The blue sky here is marked in white like the tatting pattern used for the alter cloth. A few Seeker Sisters finding it all -outside. -Page Turner |
