/AmberRose Tortorelli
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AmberRose Tortorelli
The Yellow Wallpaper
oil and mixed media on canvas
60″ x 48″
2024
“The Yellow Wallpaper” was inspired by the short story by Charolette Perkins Gilman. The main character’s descent into madness is driven in part by her physician husband who imposed the ‘rest cure’ on her. While confined to her room, the woman becomes infatuated with the wallpaper and convinces herself that there is the shadow of a woman behind the surface that she must free. The story served as a critique of medical professionals treatment of women’s mental health. “The Yellow Wallpaper was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked”. -C.P.G.
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AmberRose Tortorelli
Self-Portrait (From the Series ‘Drunk in a Toy Store and Out of Tampons with Aarne, Thompson, and Kurt Cobain)
mixed media: mannequin, broken music equipment, paint, glitter, fairy tales, chaos
33″ x 82″
2023
Mani(a)c
site-specific installation, 2022
Mani(a)c
site-specific installation, 2022
Mani(a)c
site-specific installation, 2022
Mani(a)c
site-specific installation, 2022
AmberRose Tortorelli
Self-Portrait (From the Series ‘Drunk in a Toy Store and Out of Tampons with Aarne, Thompson, and Kurt Cobain)
Mixed-Media Sculpture-mannequin, broken music equipment, paint, glitter, fairy tales, chaos
33″ x 82″
2023
You don’t plan all of your catch and cooks. Sometimes you improvise by necessity. On my sturdy flat surface, assemblage and autobiography work together to form an introspection and display of personal and professional status, in health and art. As a father, a teacher, and an artist–I have to rely on myself and take of myself through the collision, overlapping, and parallelling of these various aspects of life’s work.
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