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Learn more about Liana Farmer in “Meet the Makers: Painter and public school art teacher Liana Farmer” by Brooke Hauser for The Boston Globe
Liana Farmer is a 30-year-old visual artist and educator, born, raised and working in Boston, MA. She has had a lifelong love for the arts and is lucky enough to share her passions with her students as an elementary school art teacher. In her creative work, she centers black womxn. She aims to fill the world with intimate pieces in recognition of the natural. Many people collect and showcase her art in their homes around the world. Find more about her current projects at bylianarae.com.
Statement
An exploration into the dichotomous relationship of invisibility and conspicuousness that is black womxnhood. Through composition, color blocking and figure, the viewer is invited to look without the permission of reciprocal gaze. Blackness, often either hated or glorified, leaves little space for the ordinary. The work presents an intimate, per-chance moment between the art and audience in celebration of the familiar.
“And out of the profound desolation of her reality she may very well have invented herself.” – Toni Morrison, “What the Black Women thinks about Women’s Lib”
Instagram: @bylianarae
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