Andrea Mary Marshall’s Toxic Women Female Archetypes

If ever an artist embodied the heart and soul of Anne of Carversville, it’s Andrea Mary Marshall. Finding these images of womanhood and then digging madly into her online presence in an escavation of the totality of her work, I find myself cheering! Yes, yes, yes! (See website)

Born in 1982 in Massachusetts, Andrea Mary Marshall lives in New York City, received her BFA from Parsons in 2006 and just completed her first solo exhibition ‘Toxic Women’ at the Allegra LaViola Gallery in New York. With several prestigious honors already under her belt, the artist received a commission from Dior, LVMH for the ‘Lady Dior Multi-Media Traveling Exhibition’. Her artist’s statement conveys clear primacy of purpose and vision:

My artwork consists mainly of self-portraits that examine idealized concepts of womanhood in relation to my own identity, behavior and experiences.  My work involves a performance process, in which I create and embody highly developed characters executed through a variety of media. I use painting, photography, and video to portray characters with roles that challenge society’s views on femininity. These personas represent the opposing relationships between vulnerability and dominance, fear and freedom in female sexuality. I emphasize morality through imperfections that exaggerate this struggle with the female identity. My work challenges how society defines women by exploring the relationship between conflicting female archetypes. I visually render this juxtaposition through a symbiotic dialogue between history and contemporary culture. Through a representational means of communication, I strive to connect, rather than isolate the female experience and contribute to evolving, yet eternal, female imagery.

We will post more images from Andrea Mary Marshall in key sections of the websites. Personally, I feel that I’ve just struck psychological, emotional and artistic gold. No platinum! Anne

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