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Melanie Cervantes
38" x 50"
Acrylic Painting on 90lb Stonehenge Fine Art Paper, 100% cotton, acid-free,archival, 2007
$1250-SOLD
This painting features a Zapastisa woman who is breastfeeding for the well-being of her child, as an exercise a demonstration of her rights. This large scale painting served as a color study for the limited-edition screen print of the same name.
I started painting on rather small canvases-about the size of a standard sheet of paper. One day when I hosted an art night in my old aparment in Oakland my good friend, Izzy, asked me "are you done painting your postcard?" I responded to this challenge by moving to much larger scale painted pieces that were as tall as me. This freed my body to create large bruch strokes that engaged my whole body instead of just my wrist. I also love the idea that the central figures in my work would be either life size or larger.
The mujer zapatista in this print stares back into my eyes and asserts her power and in so doing makes me feel powerful.
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