Joetta maue biography for kids

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Joetta Maue

Artist Statement

As an artist I have utilized my daily life as muse; my work inevitably reflects this, therefore, as I became a mother my work explored and continues to explore this complex relationship and landscape. Through motherhood I began to explore the psychological landscape of the domestic space through various media. Zooming in, slowing down, creating labor in the small seemingly insignificant moments is an attempt to bring awareness and attention to the glimpses, touches, and objects that create our daily experience. Through my labor intensive drawings. embroideries and the witness of my camera I invite the viewer to slow down, look around and notice their own landscape… a landscape of their domestic world, their emotional state, and their mind.

The work 8 months is from a larger series where I explore the liminal space of the body and the bed. This specific piece is of a highly pregnant woman cocooned within the womb of her body and the bed.

The works:

wash, dry, fold, repeat and invisible labor #1 explore aspects of the labor and complex psychological experience of pregnancy, child development and mothering. By using the slow methodical process of hand embroidery I reference the slow, methodical labor of being a mother. It is done in white t

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Joetta Maue speaks with Matresence curator Catherine LeComte Lecce

 

 

 

1.) Can you share your background and artistic journey with us, particularly regarding your evolution as an artist? Your practice spans various mediums, such as photography, drawing, installation, and embroidery.

I’m trained as a photographer. I have my BFA and MFA in photography, and to me, that’s my primary medium. That’s where my knowledge and the most important historical references I have are. After I graduated with my undergraduate degree, I was making large format color photographs, which are extremely expensive to produce. I was doing C printing, but I couldn’t afford to continue that. It was really traumatic, actually. So after that, I started exploring different, more affordable ways to create art. I did a lot of printmaking with photography.

 

When I went to graduate school, my program was very studio-focused, unlike photography, which typically isn’t as much. With the decline of darkroom use, especially in color photography, I felt the need to invent reasons to be in the studio to meet the expectations of my program.

A professor assigned us an everyday project, and that’s when I started to embroider. I was really inte