Rebecca Spilecki

Lives and works in Wilton, ME, USA

Artist statement

My favored art-making practices are printmaking and sculpture, wherein I experiment with the media and methodologies concomitant with each. In print, I investigate structures of oppression, power, and privilege, looking at a wide array of social justice concerns regarding reproductive battles, race, trans rights, and more. Sculpturally, I generally explore the female body, in whole or in part, often focusing on reproduction, maternity, or deliberate amaternality. I tend towards solidity in physicality, towards intimate but largely asexual portrayals, frank and often unpretty. By making physical forms rife with detailed extremities and body rolls, I hope to reaffirm personhood and value in figures and choices which are consistently societally undervalued, demeaned, or degraded. Despite this, though, I simultaneously refuse to ground myself too firmly in practical reality, instead choosing either mythologizing the norm or norming the mythological. In those moments I do leave behind the body, I turn instead often to creatures unreal or extinct, trying still to ground them and offer them quieter, somehow still relatable life.

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