4/7/2023 0 Comments 3d abstract art![]() Cartwright’s bodies collide into the other objects and colors on the canvas, lending her works a densely layered quality, which allows her to build upon this metaphor and practice of uncovering a history while adding more to it. Her paintings function like a painterly palimpsest of history. “I thinly paint floating silhouettes and braids-moving in a psychological space of memory, emotion, and experience,” Cartwright wrote in the show’s press release. By naming them in her written work for the show, Cartwright hopes to expand the audience’s imagination of what these women’s lives could have been. These women’s histories are fragmented and are often only identifiable by their first name in record books (Betsy, Lucy, and Anarcha, for example). In her work, Cartwright honors the unnamed or later named enslaved women of Sim’s medical studies. The emerging painter is heavily influenced by the work of Black feminist scholar Saidiya Hartman, who crafted the practice of creating new stories around history that has been forgotten. Seeing the body abstracted from its whole in such a way ignited a spark for the artist to consider how the body is commodified. The exhibition-which is a partial expansion of her 2022 MFA thesis show at Rutgers University-is largely informed by Cartwright’s childhood experience of seeing medical illustration books while waiting in her mother’s office, who was a gynecologist. ![]() Born in Annapolis, Maryland, and currently based in New York, Cartwright brings her alluring new body of work to European audiences with her solo exhibition “ Phantasmatic Figures” at Berlin’s Bode gallery, on view through March 19th.
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