Rachel Ungerer
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Here For All Of You
2022 Acrylic on canvas 28" x 22" $782 Website: https://www.rachelungerer.com/ California, USA |
My Power My Love
2022 Acrylic on canvas 20" x 16" $416 |
ABOUT THE ART:
The work explores the intersection of queerness & disability & challenges the idea of disability as a burden to others. Access Intimacy, coined by Mia Mingus, is a feeling of someone understanding & anticipating another’s access needs, enabling a disabled person more agency in their life. Painted in purples with silver highlights. A bald femme using a cane is kissed by femme using a wheelchair.
In the face of discrimination disabled love is a radical act. By celebrating disabled sexuality, the work confronts how disabled people are desexualized & infantilized. We are beautiful & sensual as we are, in our unedited queer and disabled forms, accessibility needs & all. Here 2 people, of unknown genders, are anticipating a kiss. The figure in the wheelchair pulls the other close by their collar.
In the face of discrimination disabled love is a radical act. By celebrating disabled sexuality, the work confronts how disabled people are desexualized & infantilized. We are beautiful & sensual as we are, in our unedited queer and disabled forms, accessibility needs & all. Here 2 people, of unknown genders, are anticipating a kiss. The figure in the wheelchair pulls the other close by their collar.
STATEMENT:
Rachel Ungerer is a Bay Area queer disabled artist. She earned a B.A. in Fine Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles with a focus on painting. Her work has been shown in Los Angeles, Louisville KY, San Francisco, Mill Valley, Palo Alto, and Oakland.
After developing a constant chronic pain condition that limits the use of both hands, Ungerer re-trained herself to paint by working with her disabled body. She exaggerates human form and uses gestural brush strokes to capture fleeting feelings. By publicly identifying as someone with an invisible disability, Ungerer hopes to promote greater awareness and confront discriminatory social norms.
After developing a constant chronic pain condition that limits the use of both hands, Ungerer re-trained herself to paint by working with her disabled body. She exaggerates human form and uses gestural brush strokes to capture fleeting feelings. By publicly identifying as someone with an invisible disability, Ungerer hopes to promote greater awareness and confront discriminatory social norms.
DESCRIPTIONS:
Here For All Of You
My Power My Love
Both works are executed with wide bold brush strokes.
In “Here For All Of You” the figure on the left faces us; they have a full figure, bald head, round face, small eyes, a toothy grin, and hold a cane. They wear a choker necklace with an O ring pendant. The figure on the right is seated in a wheelchair and has dark wavy hair flowing down their back. An earring glints in one ear. The figure on the right kisses the grinning figure’s cheek. Both are painted in purple, blue and dark pink with highlights of silvery white on shoulders and forearms.
“My Power My Love”
This work has a background of yellow with hints of orange. Two figures face one another, lips not quite touching. The figure on the left is painted dark red with highlights of white on the jaw line and shoulder and has long wavy hair. The one on the right also has long wavy hair and sits in a wheelchair. This figure is painted with darker highlights on forehead, cheek and the top of the shoulder. The figure on the right pulls on the collar of the figure on the left.
-descriptions by Teri Grossman
My Power My Love
Both works are executed with wide bold brush strokes.
In “Here For All Of You” the figure on the left faces us; they have a full figure, bald head, round face, small eyes, a toothy grin, and hold a cane. They wear a choker necklace with an O ring pendant. The figure on the right is seated in a wheelchair and has dark wavy hair flowing down their back. An earring glints in one ear. The figure on the right kisses the grinning figure’s cheek. Both are painted in purple, blue and dark pink with highlights of silvery white on shoulders and forearms.
“My Power My Love”
This work has a background of yellow with hints of orange. Two figures face one another, lips not quite touching. The figure on the left is painted dark red with highlights of white on the jaw line and shoulder and has long wavy hair. The one on the right also has long wavy hair and sits in a wheelchair. This figure is painted with darker highlights on forehead, cheek and the top of the shoulder. The figure on the right pulls on the collar of the figure on the left.
-descriptions by Teri Grossman
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