Author | Winter Mendelson<\/p>\n
Sophia Glass is a Brooklyn painter and multi-media artist. Aided by a background in Gender and\u00a0Sexuality studies, Glass successfully explores cultural anxieties, corporeal\u00a0excess, and the division\u00a0between the beautiful and grotesque.<\/p>\n
Glass pushes her subject up to the foremost front of the canvas. The result is an uncomfortable,\u00a0unflattering yet often highly sexualized position. With elements of seduction and repulsion\u00a0cohabiting her work, \u201cambiguity and disorderliness become catalysts for sexual excitation.\u201d A\u00a0viewer\u2019s gaze is forced upon the unidealized and disembodied subject. In an almost scientific way,\u00a0the subject is placed in a metaphorical petri dish left to become a mysterious object which begs its\u00a0viewer for further exploration.<\/p>\n
In the same vein as social implications, one of her recent installations, Untitled<\/em> (2013), explores street harassment. The video was\u00a0created in collaboration with fellow queer artist Erica Kermani. The setup is such where their mouths are juxtaposed as they mimic the comments that are potentially projected to women on the street daily. The dialogue\u00a0slowly transforms into verbal retaliation against their antagonizers ending with \u201cFucking Stop.\u00a0Enough. I\u2019ve had it.\u201d<\/p>\n Not only does she study gender from a feminist perspective, but Glass’s work also encourages a conversation on how queerness potentially disrupts social norms surrounding “coherent gender markers.”<\/p>\n Check out her Untitled<\/em> video below along with samples of her work.<\/p>\n Please visit her website<\/a> for additional information.<\/p>\n