Shervone Neckles

Wet Nurse with Young Master, 2008

Wallpaper series 
Self-portrait as Young Master 
Collaged Digital print on canvas (unframed/unstretched)
32 x 48 inches (unframed)
Edition 2/3
$1800

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Artist Statement

Inspired by the Charlotte Perkins Gilman short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" and Jamaica Kincaid's "Lucy", the Wallpaper series is a multi-part installation that explores issues of one's identity getting lost and obscured through the manipulation of the paper surface. The mixed media works in the series also contemplate the history of domestic and agricultural labor as part of the migrant experience.  
 
Historical Information: The collaged digital print draws from the historical photo collection of the Missouri History Museum, St. Louis. The collection holds the original photo of an enslaved woman by the name of Louisa holding Harry E. Hayward, ca. 1853-63. George A. Hayward purchased Louisa in 1858 for the purpose of assisting his wife, Ellen, in caring for their young son, Harry. 

 

About The Artist

I draw on my Afro-Caribbean American identity and its traditions by using multiple media to retell and reconfigure stories of history, mythology, and personal experience. Through textiles, assemblage, printmaking, sculpture, and installation, I awaken embedded memories from objects and materials. The sacred and scientific imagery I use is inspired by Afro-Caribbean instinctual ways of knowing and Indigenous wisdom. My narratives bridge history and the present, life and the afterlife, mythology and the real, and seriousness with play. This gesture of remembering honors and makes visible ancestors that might otherwise be lost or forgotten.

Learn more: https://shervoneneckles.com