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Katherine Sherwood
After Ingres, 2014
Mixed media on found linen 75” x 80” $15,000 Website: http://www.katherinesherwood.com/ California, USA Photo by Ruth Saravia VO by Mari Weiss |
“…a massive stroke affected my artistic practice. The paralysis that ensued forced me to switch hands and become a
left-handed painter... This has had a profoundly liberating effect on my work...
Many famous artists have had disabilities that have not restricted them artistically such as Michelangelo’s Asperger’s
syndrome; Goya’s deafness; Degas, Monet, and Matisse’s visual impairments; Toulouse Lautrec’s dwarfism; and Frida Kahlo’s
spina bifida, polio, and trolley accident. We also do not need anyone’s pity for our conditions or to be solely defined by our
medical condition.”
From Katherine Sherwood’s 2012 article “How a Cerebral Hemorrhage Altered My Art”
DESCRIPTION:
"After Ingres is based on the Jean-Dominique-Auguste Ingres Odalisque, a famous painting of a reclining nude woman with a feather fan. An odalisque is one of the many wives in a Sultan’s harem. Ms. Sherwood’s version has brain scan imagery instead of a face and a prosthetic right arm.
Katherine Sherwood’s work is painted on the plain linen backs of several historical art reproductions. Each linen canvas is labeled with lettered and numbered codes and the names of the famous artists being reproduced. We see the names of Vermeer, Cranach the Younger, Degas, Modigliani, Holbein, Van Gogh and Renoir.
On top of these canvasses is a reclining nude woman with red-brown skin. Her back is to us, but her face is turned toward us just like Ingres’ odalisque. Her face is filled with brain scan imagery instead of facial features. She wears a large swirled headdress of gold and pale purple. The woman lies on a flat field of yellow covered with dark red hourglass shapes. She leans on her left elbow and rests her right arm over her knees. The right arm extends into a black prosthetic forearm and hand. The hand holds a peacock feather fan that drapes over the woman’s thighs." -A. Laura Brody
Katherine Sherwood’s work is painted on the plain linen backs of several historical art reproductions. Each linen canvas is labeled with lettered and numbered codes and the names of the famous artists being reproduced. We see the names of Vermeer, Cranach the Younger, Degas, Modigliani, Holbein, Van Gogh and Renoir.
On top of these canvasses is a reclining nude woman with red-brown skin. Her back is to us, but her face is turned toward us just like Ingres’ odalisque. Her face is filled with brain scan imagery instead of facial features. She wears a large swirled headdress of gold and pale purple. The woman lies on a flat field of yellow covered with dark red hourglass shapes. She leans on her left elbow and rests her right arm over her knees. The right arm extends into a black prosthetic forearm and hand. The hand holds a peacock feather fan that drapes over the woman’s thighs." -A. Laura Brody
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