Virginia Mallon

Virginia Mallon is an American artist working in paint, photography, and mixed media. Her work contemplates religious, historic, and mythological women, personal histories (including her own), and the psychological undercurrents of modern society.  With influences from  social realism, political, and feminist art, it touches upon the  angst and trauma of contemporary America, with a female point-of-view, on serial  rapists, serial killers, forced birth, and religious fanatics, and ongoing attack on reproductive rights.

 

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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