AJ Orringer

Clark University, 2025, Studio Art, Women’s and Gender Studies

busted knees

acrylic on canvas

11″ x 26.5″

2024

Not For Sale

I don’t recommend walking up stairs while texting. During my study abroad semester in Ireland, I tripped on stone steps and bruised my knees pretty badly. I found myself wanting to practice painting fleshy textures and realized I had a new reference, thus “busted knees” came to be. The moral of the story is: pay attention to where you’re going.

@echoingmybrain

AJ Orringer

Clark University, 2025, Studio Art, Women’s and Gender Studies

untitled (self-portrait)

graphite on paper

14″ x 17″

2024

Not For Sale

I have a complicated relationship with my body; I have had to work incredibly hard over the past sixteen years in order to give my body the love and support she deserves. “untitled (self-portrait)” is a representation of how far I’ve come in my journey of self-love. Bodies are the physical forms that carry us through life, and I continue to celebrate mine every day.

@echoingmybrain

AJ Orringer

Clark University, 2025, Studio Art; Women’s and Gender Studies

Untitled (Angry)

gouache paint on canvas

12″ x 9″

2022

untitled (angry) was my first painting following the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June of 2022. Fueled by mixes of fear, anger and sadness, I let myself paint the bloodshed that would undoubtedly follow this decision; the bloodshed of those who will die because an abortion would have saved their lives, of those who thought they could get away with the annihilation of human rights, and of those caught in the crossfire of a battle that we will not lose.

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