bluebee magazine - volume 2

Emily Strong

Pennsylvania, United States

Emily’s background in psychology and sociology studies have heavily influenced the content and formal qualities of her artwork. She explores how culture, media and surroundings shape our relationships with our physical selves and aims to dismantle the most negative stereotypes about body types, age and gender.

In these paintings, the augmented flesh folds have become a unique and self-sufficient landscape. There is no clue as to how many bodies are depicted here, or whether they are male or female. But why should it matter? The body is free to be viewed without any context or judgement. Beauty exists independently of such socially constructed paragons.

Inward passage - 2018 - Oil on canvas

Resilience - 2019 - Oil on canvas

bluebee magazine - volume 2

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