My painting, “Frankenmulatto” was accepted into an open call at the Little D Gallery in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The exhibit features artwork that is politically inspired, with a focus on omen’s rights, racial/ gender inequality, immigration, healthcare and the inner weavings of the political system. The exhibit opened Sept. 4th, 2020 and runs through October.
My statement for this painting:
Frankenmulatto is about America's attempts to piece together racial equality within a system that was never designed for it. The figure on the gurney references Frankenstein’s monster- a tragic figure pieced together from the remains of several dead men, however in this case the monster is a make-shift mulatto, an antiquated term for the offspring of one black and one white parent. The great bird descending on the figure has the body of an American eagle and the head of a vulture, at once evoking the patriotic urgency to defend American democratic values while at the same time feeding on the casualties of that system.
