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THBDINORA JUSTICE, Collage 11 - after Matisse’s Odalisque with Moorish Chair
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621 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
United States
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TimedMar 17, 2025 - Mar 29, 2025
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102. DINORA JUSTICE
Collage 11 - after Matisse’s Odalisque with Moorish Chair, 2017
Decorated, found and hand-painted paper on paper
9" x 12"
$2,550
Courtesy of the artist and Gallery NAGA
Dinorá Justice was born in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil in 1969 and lives and works in Massachusetts. Justice received her BFA from The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University and her MFA from the School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.Justice is the 2022 recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Painting Fellowship and the 2020 School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston at Tufts University Traveling Fellowship. Justice is represented by Gallery NAGA in Boston, MA.
Visit: gallerynaga.com/dinora-justice
Artist's Description:
Since 2014, Justice has been hand-marbling areas directly on canvas and using their organic swirls and veins to echo designs found in nature. Justice’s “Odalisque” paintings address conscious and unconscious biases regarding traditional associations of nature with the feminine. The philosophers of the Enlightenment equated men with reason, whereas women and nature were consigned to the realm of the irrational. This idea lives on in the widely used expression “Mother Nature,” which feminizes the environment and gives credence, by way of tradition, to the attitude that both nature and women need to be conquered, domesticated, and controlled. Justice's idea is to step back and look at women differently and to weigh the impact of deeply ingrained attitudes toward the female that have ramifications in the realm of ecology. For this, she chose to work with iconic paintings of women by masters such as Matisse and Ingres, from a period in their careers in which they explored a fascination with the exotic Middle East through paintings of “odalisques,” quasi-slave women kept secluded in the harems of upper-class men. In these paintings, she substituted trees and plants for drapery and furniture, and she used traditional marbling techniques to erase specificity through patterns. This work tries to show how feminist issues can potentially strengthen environmentalism because a more egalitarian and just society plays naturally into the understanding that we are part of a vast living organism that seeks equilibrium.
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