"My Daughter and Me, 2023" by Elin O’Hara Slavick
My Daughter and Me, 2023. Gouache, acrylic and ink on canvas, 8’ x 4’. $2000
I traced my daughter and she traced me a few months before she left home for college. I spent a month working on this painting as a form of merging us and keeping us safe together/apart. I think of my daughter as a goddess and I hope she thinks of me, her mother as a goddess.
Bio: elin o’Hara slavick is an Artist-in-Residence in the School of Public Health, University of California, Irvine (2022-2025). She was a Professor of Studio Art Practice and Theory at UNC, Chapel Hill for 27 years. She was represented by Cohen Gallery in LA. Slavick is the author of two monographs - Bomb After Bomb: A Violent Cartography (with a foreword by Howard Zinn) and After Hiroshima (with an essay by James Elkins); a chapbook of surrealist poetry, Cameramouth; and Holding History in Our Hand for the 75th commemoration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. She has held artist residencies in Canada, France, the United States, Japan, and most recently at Caltech in Pasadena, California. Her work is included in the Getty’s 2024 PST show, Crossing Over, at Caltech, curated by Claudia Bohn-Spector. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Images Magazine, FOAM, San Francisco Chronicle, Asia-Pacific Journal, among other publications. She is a lifelong activist for peace, free speech, true democracy, labor rights, sexual/erotic/gender liberation, and against nuclear power and weapons, war, capitalism, racism, sexism and corporate power.
My Daughter and Me, 2023. Gouache, acrylic and ink on canvas, 8’ x 4’. $2000
I traced my daughter and she traced me a few months before she left home for college. I spent a month working on this painting as a form of merging us and keeping us safe together/apart. I think of my daughter as a goddess and I hope she thinks of me, her mother as a goddess.
Bio: elin o’Hara slavick is an Artist-in-Residence in the School of Public Health, University of California, Irvine (2022-2025). She was a Professor of Studio Art Practice and Theory at UNC, Chapel Hill for 27 years. She was represented by Cohen Gallery in LA. Slavick is the author of two monographs - Bomb After Bomb: A Violent Cartography (with a foreword by Howard Zinn) and After Hiroshima (with an essay by James Elkins); a chapbook of surrealist poetry, Cameramouth; and Holding History in Our Hand for the 75th commemoration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. She has held artist residencies in Canada, France, the United States, Japan, and most recently at Caltech in Pasadena, California. Her work is included in the Getty’s 2024 PST show, Crossing Over, at Caltech, curated by Claudia Bohn-Spector. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Images Magazine, FOAM, San Francisco Chronicle, Asia-Pacific Journal, among other publications. She is a lifelong activist for peace, free speech, true democracy, labor rights, sexual/erotic/gender liberation, and against nuclear power and weapons, war, capitalism, racism, sexism and corporate power.
My Daughter and Me, 2023. Gouache, acrylic and ink on canvas, 8’ x 4’. $2000
I traced my daughter and she traced me a few months before she left home for college. I spent a month working on this painting as a form of merging us and keeping us safe together/apart. I think of my daughter as a goddess and I hope she thinks of me, her mother as a goddess.
Bio: elin o’Hara slavick is an Artist-in-Residence in the School of Public Health, University of California, Irvine (2022-2025). She was a Professor of Studio Art Practice and Theory at UNC, Chapel Hill for 27 years. She was represented by Cohen Gallery in LA. Slavick is the author of two monographs - Bomb After Bomb: A Violent Cartography (with a foreword by Howard Zinn) and After Hiroshima (with an essay by James Elkins); a chapbook of surrealist poetry, Cameramouth; and Holding History in Our Hand for the 75th commemoration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. She has held artist residencies in Canada, France, the United States, Japan, and most recently at Caltech in Pasadena, California. Her work is included in the Getty’s 2024 PST show, Crossing Over, at Caltech, curated by Claudia Bohn-Spector. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Images Magazine, FOAM, San Francisco Chronicle, Asia-Pacific Journal, among other publications. She is a lifelong activist for peace, free speech, true democracy, labor rights, sexual/erotic/gender liberation, and against nuclear power and weapons, war, capitalism, racism, sexism and corporate power.