Nicole Rose Gelormino

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Cut Collage on Board

Tongue & Esophageal Opening, 24x36"

Heart, 9x12"

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Process work

watercolor on paper, 3x5"

Uterus Didelphys, graphite, pen & charcoal on paper, 11x14"
pattern exploration, oil on canvas board, 11x14"

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Saturday, October 22, 2011

come see my art next to my pre-k Leola students' art at Open Studios in Hunters Point

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more info: www.artspan.org or www.artseed.org

18x20" oil

pink uterus

shrivelled uterus

winged uterus

cut-open uterus

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Digestive System 3x5" ink

stomach and duodenum

duodenum

duodenum and pancreas

stomach, duodenum, pancreas and spleen

stomach

stomach II

liver

invented anatomy

artist statement

I'm working to create objects and pictures of objects that look like they've come out of our bodies--like I've excavated or removed parts that are suppose to stay inside us & remain unseen. I'm also working to show views inside the body--like an investigator or an explorer taking us to places where we don't belong and perhaps where we don't want to be or to where we secretly desire to be. I'm working to show parts and places inside of us that are dark, visceral, gross, glorious, vulnerable, sexual, feminized, diseased, deformed, vital, dejected, full of pain and withholding of our stress, anxiety, fear and grief. I am reclaiming the patriarchal gaze of the psychoanalyst, of the astronaut, of the surgeon, of the media, of the consumer of smut and special cereal that will make you thinner. I am reclaiming the gaze to provide an experience of discomfort, ambivalence, disgust, enamoration, curiosity, lust and estrangement. By aesthetically providing such experiences, I aim to inspire a deeper awareness of our bodies and the meanings they carry.