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Size: 3.375 x 3.375 x 1.625 in
Medium: Mixed media assemblage
Louise Leathers is a French-born artist who lives and works in Los Angeles.
Appropriating the classical paintings she had studied and worked with for many years, she creates feminist analog works. Influenced by artists such as Sherrie Levine and the Guerrilla Girls, she seeks to contribute to an ongoing movement toward the re-feminization of art history.
In 2017, she moved to Los Angeles and found an abundant new source of imagery in religious magazines. Having grown up Catholic, she has long perceived this religion as a system of oppression, but the internal American fight with theocracy only comforted her in her anti-religious views. She began to develop new provocative and blasphemous series, freeing her characters from dogma. While the Mary series reimagines scenes of the Nativity, transforming the figure of Jesus into piles of sex toys and contraceptives of all kinds, her more recent assemblages use these figures to interrogate and challenge contemporary political power structures.
Size: 3.375 x 3.375 x 1.625 in
Medium: Mixed media assemblage
Louise Leathers is a French-born artist who lives and works in Los Angeles.
Appropriating the classical paintings she had studied and worked with for many years, she creates feminist analog works. Influenced by artists such as Sherrie Levine and the Guerrilla Girls, she seeks to contribute to an ongoing movement toward the re-feminization of art history.
In 2017, she moved to Los Angeles and found an abundant new source of imagery in religious magazines. Having grown up Catholic, she has long perceived this religion as a system of oppression, but the internal American fight with theocracy only comforted her in her anti-religious views. She began to develop new provocative and blasphemous series, freeing her characters from dogma. While the Mary series reimagines scenes of the Nativity, transforming the figure of Jesus into piles of sex toys and contraceptives of all kinds, her more recent assemblages use these figures to interrogate and challenge contemporary political power structures.