Ledger of Lost Outrage

Harvey Weinstein, oil on a mattess cover Madonna of the Money, oil on canvas DJT American Monsters, oil on gold lamé

This series is a personal reckoning. It reflects on the painful, complex intersection of societal grooming, set-ups, and our own missteps. Through a lens of heavy introspection, the artwork explores how easily we, as women, have sometimes participated in our own undoing—navigating the conditioning that taught us to silence ourselves, while mourning the personal choices made under that influence. It’s less a battle cry than an honest, vulnerable look in the mirror at the challenges we’ve inherited, and the ones we’ve accidentally helped maintain.

It also asks the question why? why be an artist? why paint these monsters? why remind viewers of the atrocities that are happening daily around us? Is it to reform? remind? shame? Did/do any male political artists ever ask themselves why? why they painted monsters? did George Grosz or Goya question their motives? or is it just women trained from birth to question themselves?

More thoughts and works in progress will be shared on my instagram account @VirginiaMallon. It is where ideas and designs and thoughts are worked out and incorporated into paint. I hope you will follow me there.