EVEN IN THE GARDEN
Even in the Garden explores myths, bible stories, and fairy tales about women's role in the world, touching upon fictional events portrayed as reality that represent the loss of feminine power and the birth of the patriarchy.
It launches from antiquity and reaches forward toward today to examine how antiquated ideology still rules our contemporary world.
The title, Even in the Garden, reflects on how women through time primordial and even in a fictional paradise were in trouble.
Even in the Garden, oil on burlap, 42x25, $5000
Lot’s Wife, oil on burlap, 15 x 34, $5000
Expulsion, oil on burlap, 22x35, $1500
The Banshee, oil on burlap, 25 x 35, $1500
Badger & the Tree of Knowledge, oil on burlap, 25x38, $1200
Artemis, oil on burlap, 25x35, $1500
New Eve, oil on canvas, 22 x 48, $1500
King of Diamonds, oil on burlap, 28x38, $1500
Beasts, oil on burlap, 28x38, $1500
Inner Beasts, oil on canvas, 36x48, $3000
Be a Little Lamb, oil on canvas, 36x48, $2500
Virginia Mallon is an artist working in paint, photography, and mixed media. Her work contemplates religious, historic, and mythological women, personal histories, the psychological undercurrents of contemporary society as well as a mix of environmental themes.
Mallon’s work explores painting on non-traditional surfaces, such as burlap, slate, found objects, and cigar boxes as well as oil on canvas. Recent projects use discarded roof tiles from a former state-run (1885-1996) condemned psychiatric hospital. Now a hotspot for urbex explorers, it provides a wealth of unusual poignant pieces of history on which to paint.
The added symbolism using a piece of broken shelter from an insane asylum seems appropriate for our times.
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