Teacher Name: Rebecca Baruc
Grade: 12
Materials: Pastel, Paint, Charcoal
Artist Statement: I use my art-making as my favorite method of storytelling. In past years, I’ve focused on how metaphors and poetic themes can be used to create full narratives. This year I’m diving into creating body art on flat surfaces and how the placement of the piece of art itself can influence the story told. I’ve started experimenting with combining different mediums and how they layer on top of each other to convey feelings behind the pieces, adding to the intended tone of the drawings and paintings. My first piece from this series is of a flower design spread across a woman’s back, intending to show a comparison of something as soft, fragile, and natural as a flower and something like a woman’s back that tends to be sexualized in media even though it is just like the flowers themselves: soft, fragile, and natural. I tend to work with materials that can be considered messy, such as pastels, oil paints, acrylics, and charcoal, as I am often inclined to work with materials that don’t feel finite and can be layered over, moved, and erased. Using these materials, I enjoy leaving behind the imperfections of the pieces. Things like smudges or fingerprints allow it, so my pieces tell not only the narratives I am telling but also the processes it took to make them.
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