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Kathryn Geismar: Becoming
Kathryn Geismar is an artist and mother whose work explores identity, individuation, and the complexity of selfhood. She is interested in the performative nature of the portrait: It is both a truth and a lie while asking to be seen as definitive.
The work in 鈥淏ecoming鈥� continues an ongoing project in which Geismar explores the fragile boundaries between self and other, mother and child, male and female. Figures move out of the center of the canvas, arriving or departing before the viewer鈥檚 eyes. Other portraits incorporate old symbols or drawings by her children that act as bridges between disparate times and different moments of being.
The project began as a way to engage with her transgender child鈥檚 transition; it now also includes her cis-gender child鈥檚 unfolding identity as well as her own identity as artist, mother, and female.
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Kathryn Geismar is an artist and mother whose work explores identity, individuation, and the complexity of selfhood. She is interested in the performative nature of the portrait: It is both a truth and a lie while asking to be seen as definitive.
The work in 鈥淏ecoming鈥� continues an ongoing project in which Geismar explores the fragile boundaries between self and other, mother and child, male and female. Figures move out of the center of the canvas, arriving or departing before the viewer鈥檚 eyes. Other portraits incorporate old symbols or drawings by her children that act as bridges between disparate times and different moments of being.
The project began as a way to engage with her transgender child鈥檚 transition; it now also includes her cis-gender child鈥檚 unfolding identity as well as her own identity as artist, mother, and female.
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