Meredith Alcarese

Gowanus

http://www.merimacdesign.com/pages/paintings.html

Artist Statement

My current series is an exploration of my family history, using myself as a model. I've been poring over photographs from close relatives taken before I was born, whole complex and flawed and fascinating people who I seem to have barely met. I am composing portraits of these past selves, imagining my grandmother in the 1960s, my grandfather before his strokes, my mother and her twin as teenagers. I use myself as the model, knowing that somewhere their histories are wrapped up in my own.

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