Ellen Shattuck Pierce - US Handmaid’s Tale, 2022
Linocut
Media Dimensions: 38.1 x 48.2 cm
Image Dimensions: 27.9 x 38.1 cm
Unique Work
Unframed only
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Ellen Shattuck Pierce is an artist and educator living in Boston, Massachusetts. She loves printmaking and its historical role in disseminating knowledge, its use as a decorative art, and its use as a medium for protest. She embraces all three of these aspects by using relief cuts to create allegorical scenes of American life in her prints, books and wall paper installations.
I am drawn to the modest and traditional medium of printmaking but work to push beyond its formal boundaries. Relief carvings are the foundation of my custom wallpaper. My designs are based on 18th Century toile textiles which are the perfect world to express the duality of lived experience. The beatific scenes of leisure, wealth and endless happy days speak to the pursuit of happiness written into the US constitution and Americans' obsession with achieving the perfect life. In my wallpaper, the pleasant garden scenes form a backdrop to more realistic aspects of life: laundry, schlepping, expressing breast milk, dishes, feeding, and cooking. These images repeat themselves and, in doing so, convey the never-ending pattern of care work.
Linocut
Media Dimensions: 38.1 x 48.2 cm
Image Dimensions: 27.9 x 38.1 cm
Unique Work
Unframed only
Split your payment over 10 months with Own Art 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork could be from as little as £184.25 (unframed).
Ellen Shattuck Pierce is an artist and educator living in Boston, Massachusetts. She loves printmaking and its historical role in disseminating knowledge, its use as a decorative art, and its use as a medium for protest. She embraces all three of these aspects by using relief cuts to create allegorical scenes of American life in her prints, books and wall paper installations.
I am drawn to the modest and traditional medium of printmaking but work to push beyond its formal boundaries. Relief carvings are the foundation of my custom wallpaper. My designs are based on 18th Century toile textiles which are the perfect world to express the duality of lived experience. The beatific scenes of leisure, wealth and endless happy days speak to the pursuit of happiness written into the US constitution and Americans' obsession with achieving the perfect life. In my wallpaper, the pleasant garden scenes form a backdrop to more realistic aspects of life: laundry, schlepping, expressing breast milk, dishes, feeding, and cooking. These images repeat themselves and, in doing so, convey the never-ending pattern of care work.
Linocut
Media Dimensions: 38.1 x 48.2 cm
Image Dimensions: 27.9 x 38.1 cm
Unique Work
Unframed only
Split your payment over 10 months with Own Art 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork could be from as little as £184.25 (unframed).
Ellen Shattuck Pierce is an artist and educator living in Boston, Massachusetts. She loves printmaking and its historical role in disseminating knowledge, its use as a decorative art, and its use as a medium for protest. She embraces all three of these aspects by using relief cuts to create allegorical scenes of American life in her prints, books and wall paper installations.
I am drawn to the modest and traditional medium of printmaking but work to push beyond its formal boundaries. Relief carvings are the foundation of my custom wallpaper. My designs are based on 18th Century toile textiles which are the perfect world to express the duality of lived experience. The beatific scenes of leisure, wealth and endless happy days speak to the pursuit of happiness written into the US constitution and Americans' obsession with achieving the perfect life. In my wallpaper, the pleasant garden scenes form a backdrop to more realistic aspects of life: laundry, schlepping, expressing breast milk, dishes, feeding, and cooking. These images repeat themselves and, in doing so, convey the never-ending pattern of care work.