John Westmark is a painter interested in the metaphorical potential of unorthodox materials. The primary material used in his current work is store-bought, paper, sewing patterns, applied directly to the canvas. The patterns are reinterpreted outside of their usual functional context as garment templates to represent figurative and metaphysical imagery. These paintings present both a material and conceptual narrative by embellishing the garment patterns imprinted language of assembly with custom text from contemporary feminist writing and criticism. This added textual narrative disrupts the nostalgic or stereotypical notion of women’s work and admits an aggressive feminist dialog into the visual conversation. The viewer is asked to read both the material and the conveyed story. The women depicted in the paintings are no doubt fearless, independent and scandalous.

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COMMENTS

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  beautiful work! posters for posterity!

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  I like it. And it grabbed your attention esp. if you posted a comment below. whether you love it or hate I don't see anything where it promotes violence or degrading women.. what i see is government taking away the rights of a citizen n the rights away from people. Failure to follow instructions will land us in prison like the model. Now if steven photographed the same concept with average shmucks would we pay much attention to it? i dont think so. it'd be just another political journalistic photograph.

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  i agree

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  Perfect inspiration for our soon to be flat : )

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  This list is one of the best of restaurants around England.

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  ... Tilda is like kristen mcmenamy - magic in everything

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  the tilda shoot is magic.

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  Boring

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  LOL this is such a frumpy campaign. Raquel Zimmermann looks so awkward dancing those bad bad moves. WWTT??? a.k.a What Were They Thinking?

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