Theia

Details About Shipping Charcoal, 23K Gold Leaf, and Ink on Coffee-Stained Paper, Mounted to Birch Panel 8 x 10 in. © 2016 (framed) Iconography can tell a story.  Believing it’s subtle power shapes us, Alessandra Maria's work is an attempt to create a modern feminist idol, to redefine feminine divinity and to combat objectification and dehumanization.  Her work re-imagines traditional depictions of female divinity. Throughout history, and particularly within the Abrahamic religions, feminine power has been embodied in three forms with few exceptions: the virgin, the whore, and the mother. Put another way, women's highest expression of virtue was defined insofar as their being a vessel for someone else child. The echoes of these restrictive archetypes inspire her to create icons whose power transcends that of a woman's physical vessel, who’s sexuality evokes strength, stalwartness, and edge regardless of sexuality.  “Though she graduated from Pratt Institute only in 2012, rising