What Two Types of Themes Can Be Found in Devia Art?
Nancy Rourke
PAINTING THE DEAF EXPERIENCE
I grew up in San Diego and survived through oralism all my childhood life. I was built-in Deaf without my parents knowing until I was 6 years old. I studied art at Rochester Plant of Technology in New York and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Reckoner Graphics and Painting. I started painting at age six until 1986 I became a graphic designer for twenty years in the corporate world. I went back to painting and got involved in De'VIA art motion in 2010, and realized I had discovered my passion. De'VIA stands for Deafened View Image Art. Art is based on Deafened experiences.
My paintings are near Deafhood that focuses on a journey, and discovering my own identity. I paint about Audism, Deaf history, politics, culturally linguistic, and the Second Wave of Oralism. The influence came from Dr. Paddy Ladd's book, Understanding Deafened Culture, In Search of Deafhood. I paint art using resistance, affirmative and libration equally part of the three themes in De'VIA. I am influenced by the art movements: Fauvism, Neo-Expressionism, De Stijl and Cubism. These influences got me to using primary colours in paintings and considering I wanted to make them quite vivid and eye catching. I create motifs, metaphors and subconscious messages. I feel that my fine art is important for the audition to see who and what our human rights are about today.
Here is a sample of my work with some of my comments most the paintings.
The outset is a painting based on what I have seen during my artist-in-residencies. This girl was born Deafened and had her first cochlear implant at age 21 months. Her parents worked hard to teach her how to talk and heed to music. They encouraged her not to utilize sign language. They tell friends and relatives that their girl is 'hearing.' When she entered a mainstream program, she felt like a river. This was where she was struggling to observe her ain identity. I side of her, shows a land filled with mouths and ears. Some other side of her, shows a land filled with sign language. She is the river. The river shows an image of her with the discussion AUDISM. This means that turning a Deafened baby into a 'hearing' baby through cochlear implant and and so educating her orally represents a violation of human rights.
In the painting, on the left side, is the Deaf globe with fingerspelling "D" — "E" — "A" — "F" while on the correct side, is the hearing world with deaf person learning how to talk and listen, that shows ears and mouths. The river is the Deaf girl.
Similar a River
16 inch by 20 inch
oil on sail
2014
The adjacent painting is virtually the 2nd Moving ridge of Oralism that has been invading the Deafened Culture, or in other word, removing/taking away. The Deafened people are fighting confronting those "Ears" who are taking Deaf babies for experimental work on stalk cells and cochlear implants. In the painting, there are some Deafened people pushing the Ears out, while the other Deaf people are trying to escape. The "ears" are the eugenicists, who are destroying their natural manner of life.
Cultural Genocide
8 inch by x inch oil on canvass
2012
This painting was the offset version of the CODA serial that I did in 2011. This is a first painting virtually CODA that was never shown in public. The hands and eyes are the Deaf parents of CODAs. The CODAS are sitting under the tabular array talking and laughing while their Deafened parents sit around the table under the brilliant lite, socializing all evening.
Hands, Eyes and CODAs
11 inch by fourteen inch
oil on sail
2011
The subject of the final painting is the way in which the Deaf people around the World are continued to each other. The hands of different colours from dissimilar countries in the globe, their signing "Unity" connects among each other. Regardless, of their whereabouts, their cultures and language, the Deafened people connect instantly considering they are Deaf. To idenify each country'due south sign linguistic communication, each country has its own abbreviation. American Sign Language: ASL, French Sign Language: LSF, Italian Sign Language: LIS, etc.
Global Deaf Connect
30 inch by 40 inch
oil on canvas
2011
Many more examples of my piece of work can be seen on my website at www.nancyrourke.com.
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