ARTIST STATEMENT
the “my favorite things” series focuses primarily on representations of women’s breasts and torsos as colorful landscapes. in these intimate and apparently simple paintings, i am combining a personal history of queer landscape painting with more recent digital and acrylic reimaginings of statues as lively, towering, cosmic women. creating representations of women’s bodies, particularly breasts in all sizes, colors and varieties, has been an expression of my desire, but also where i refind myself as a transwoman in a non-sexual relation with cis women. for me, it is through visually exploring the “breasted experience,” referring to iris marion young’s essay title, that i process my own embodiment as a woman and as a lesbian, identities that can both be seen and made invisible in a society that punishes women and women’s non-reproductive desires.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
eve bridges is a white transwoman and self-taught artist living in chicago. when not working, teaching adult education, or painting, eve loves to build a queer archive from used books purchased from lgbt+ retail stores. her cat’s name is tree.
© Eve Bridges