we are so excited to present our thesis show ‘Without Notice’ at ArtWalk this coming weekend!! come see our work in room 350 in Main Building :) 🕺🕺
On view: May 15th - 18th
Reception: May 15th 5:30-8:30 pm
1300 W. Mount Royal Ave
Baltimore, MD
Room 350
PAINTING SENIOR SPOTLIGHT: SOFIA MCDANIELS
Through graduation in May, we are highlighting the incredible work of our senior Painting majors in our series of Senior Spotlights. Today we are featuring the work of @sofiamcdanielss
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My name is Sofia McDaniels (she/her) from Atlanta, Georgia! I’m a senior painting major :)
In my work I seek to express concern about the legacy of white supremacy in the American South, wondering what it takes to be feminine, and who is allowed to be [feminine]. I assume the position of the white feminine (Southern Belle), aiming to articulate the essential role of white womanhood in the Ku Klux Klan, the incitement of spectacle lynchings, and a generational legacy of violent anti-blackness, while simultaneously exploring internalized and externalized acts of violence resulting from this assimilation. The white feminine exists in direct opposition to Blackness, and in challenging the understanding of white American femininity as perpetual victimhood, purity, and a thing in need of protection, I aim to recognize the threat that it has historically posed to the Black body.
I’ve enjoyed dipping my toes into the sculpture and fibers department at MICA, the way that these departments discuss artwork and craftsmanship has not only shifted the surfaces I paint on and how I display my work, but how I think about composition and implication overall.
For my thesis I’ve been focusing on the dramatic and theatrical and will be presenting a number of cut out and layered paintings for ArtWalk.
@marylandinstitutecollegeofart@micapaints@mica.drawing@mica.generalfinearts
thank you @rransomphoto for taking such beautiful documentation of my reception this past friday 🌞 (more photos later…)
thank you to everyone who came and offered kind words and helpful critique!! and most importantly a million thank yous to my wonderful friends dhanviee, lara and isha who helped with install and so much else! 💋
if you didn’t get a chance to come to the opening, my show will be up until 4/17!
hi!!! my second solo show The Devil I Know opens at the end of this month :) The Devil I Know seeks to express concern about the legacy of white supremacy in the American South while simultaneously wondering what it takes to be feminine and who is allowed to be. Drawing on themes of pageantry, familial legacies of violence, purity, perpetual victimhood and self-victimization.
On view March 30th - April 17th
Opening reception: April 3rd 4:30-6:00 pm! see you there!! 💋💋
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