CLAIRE WEAVER-ZEMAN

— My artwork explores modern feminist ideas through mythology and storytelling. I reimagine tales that address transformation and growth in ways that empower women, and rework and interpret visual ideas from Greek and Roman mythology, Renaissance paintings, movies, books, and my own environment.

Often, my characters are helping each other through moments of transition and physical, emotional, or mental growth. Sometimes figures are depicted mid-transformation, as they turn into animals or hybridized beasts. Although they can be strange, awkward, and disorienting, these transitions involve transfers of knowledge, love, and joy, and are ultimately a source of strength. These transforming individuals are aided by ritual, animal companions, and powerful objects. I use stencils to construct repeating imagery and pattern, and create moving, layered images that operate in an illogical, fluctuating landscape.

I graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 2018 with a degree in painting and am now based in Brooklyn. After I graduated, I spent the summer at the Chautauqua School of Art, in residence with many other artists, musicians, and dancers from around the country. My first Solo show was at Sprout Gallery in Providence in 2018. Lately I participated in the ACI residency in Corciano, Italy. Recently I was included in the group show, FEE-FI-FO-FUM at 5-50 Gallery in Long Island City and showed and animation at the AmphoraVision projection party on Governors Island.

Instagram: @cweaverzeman.art

Website: claire-weaverzeman.squarespace.com