ALINE MARE
PAINTER and MULTI-MEDIA ARTIST
WILL BE(EARLY PERFORMANCE WORK)
YONI, 2021
My work conveys a mythos of nature expressed through the feminine sublime, inhabiting the vulvic aura of the earth, trees, sea, and desert with a sense of the urban in the mix.
I use thematic narratives that guide a deeply personal metaphoric language, using the forces of forms in nature as metaphors of the cycles of life death and rebirth, in both the physical and metaphysical worlds.
This ongoing body of work synthesizes my own history with natural cycles of the earth, married to a very human attempt to understand our world through the two lenses of science and art. I am interested in creating a rich layering of sources: a poetic language where systems of generation and communication are fused to form a new language, using the tools of the mixed media formats of painting and photography, connecting issues of the environment and human nature.
EGG LADY
TATTOOED WINGED ANGEL
My newest work comprises images of natural materials: mica and minerals in the processes of transformation-- crystal structures as a natural form of glass growing in thin shimmering plates. I have also been utilizing images made available through the NASA Global Climate Change website and integrating them with scans of seeds and minerals, in order to emphasize the human induced warmings of the climate system.
FOSSIL FOOT
BLOODY GLOVE
SCARRED FLOWERS
Requiem: Aching for Acker (2019) is a direct response to what was the final poem in Kathy Acker’s last work of literature, the opera Eurydice in the Underworld (1997, Arcadia Press, London). The play ends as a particularly fraught passage, Requiem, is performed, infused with a painful awareness on the parts of both author and audience that this elegiac gesture was meant for Acker herself. “Take me in your arms, death,” she wrote. “I’m so scared, do anything to me that will make me safe while I kick my heels and shout...” https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/mare-open-up-this-body/3932
