Anne-Marie Delaunay-Danizio
“I have always loved painting, re-appropriating abstract expressionism as a gender-fluid/feminist artist.
Born in Paris, France and coming of age in the seventies, I internalized painting as masculine and felt conflicted between my female body and my passion for painting. The works shown here were done during the last semester of my MFA July-2019-January 2020 and represent my return to painting.
In my MFA thesis, titled Eve's Clitoris, I identify the three stages of my artistic and life journey: "Castrated Woman”, “Mother”, and “Whole Again." The section titled "Castrated Woman" illustrates the beginning of my artistic career as an abstract painter. The section titled "Mother" illustrates the shift from painting to iconographic paper-maché sculptures centered on 1970s feminism, as they connect to my experience as a mother. The section “Whole Again” is about my return to abstract painting, as a mature woman asserting her creative drive”.
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