Drawing
And Me Here On The Ground
Referencing the painting Vierge Consolatrice by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Mary cannot comfort me as I mourn myself.
Drawing
Annunciation (After Rossetti)
Referencing the painting Ecce Ancilla Domini by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The clown and his promises do little to comfort me/Mary.
Drawing
The Last Supper
The Last Supper, except instead of Jesus its Mary, and instead of the apostles there's more Mary's, and Mary is actually me, and I'm actually a clown, actually we're all clowns.
Work by
Callie DeWees
“Simplified illustrations and feminist illuminations that can be read as parody of religious art history. Adding dimension to the character of Mary while flattening the visual and undoing the canon of...” [More]