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Willow Iverson
1media/374998660_248483388175865_6061020522417170113_n.jpg2023-04-28T16:21:24+00:00Maxwell Cloed8840c620fc20aeee2b1f40a1e54c0e3967fa30d16Painter from Johnson City, Tennesseestructured_gallery2023-09-14T14:46:58+00:00Maxwell Cloed8840c620fc20aeee2b1f40a1e54c0e3967fa30dWillow Iverson is a painter, sculptor, and multimedia artist from Johnson City, Tennessee. In their art, Willow Iverson adds layer on layer on layer of paint, photographs, scavenged items from their surroundings, and objects from their past to construct a natural and bodily landscape that defies conventional categorization. This process of physical layering mimics the depth of layers that make up the lives and identities of queer people and the deep histories, cultures, and ecologies of the Appalachian Mountains. At the same time, the art of Willow Iverson includes both physical and dreamt components of their life - joys, traumas, hauntings, communities - that give the art an additional layer beyond the purely aesthetic and into the archival. In a world where the expression and history of queer people constantly face repression from powerful institutions, art like that of Willow Iverson is a necessary interjection.
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