CLAIRE A. WARDEN

No. 09 (Not Basic Color Theory)

2016

Piezography Print

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(Member 2011 - 2012)

Claire A. Warden (b. Montreal, Quebec) is an artist working in Phoenix, Arizona.Claire’s series Mimesis has been exhibited widely in the United States and abroad, including solo exhibitions at The University of Kansas, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, and Colorado Photographic Arts Center. The creation of Mimesis comes at a time when the struggle to accept the unfamiliar is pervasive in our culture. When looking at these images, the urge to ask “what is it?” echoes the question, “what are you?” – a question that has been directed towards me countless times as a person of color. I use a cameraless photographic process on negative film, which incorporates saliva and mark-making. I find this process to be uniquely qualified to address the biologic and socio-cultural forces that stimulate the emergence of identity. This process produces a series of images that reveal certain truths in my experiences surrounding identity and simultaneously the inadequacies of language to describe oneself.

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