Deeply Rooted: Faith in Reproductive Justice artists Dell Marie Hamilton and Roya Amigh share their practices and join Guest Curator Caron Tabb in conversation.
Artist, writer and curator, Dell Marie Hamilton makes work that examines the diasporic, fragmented, and syncretic nature of the human condition at the intersection of race, gender, power, language, memory, and identity. She has performed extensively throughout the Boston and New England area including at the MFA/Boston, the Clark Art Institute, and the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. In 2019, she was a participating artist in the Havana Biennial and is a recipient of the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston’s 2021 James and Audrey Foster Prize. Her interdisciplinary practice encompasses live performance, painting, drawing, installation, video, and photography. Her work has appeared in Hyperallergic, Art in America and NKA: Contemporary Journal of African Art. She also works on a variety of research, editorial and curatorial projects at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
Using fragmentation to encourage viewers to reflect on the body and its most intimate parts, Iranian artist Roya Amigh raises questions about identity and social history through the lens of gender and sexuality. Amigh earned her MFA in painting from Boston University in 2012. Amigh has shown in academic and public venues from Korea to Greece to the U.S., including Brooklyn; Boston; Lincoln, Nebraska; New York City; Providence; and Wellesley, Mass. She has had residencies at MacDowell, Art Omi, MASS MoCA, and The Millay Colony for the Arts, among other places. She was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Drawing and Printmaking in 2020 and a Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2022.
Supported by grants from Combined Jewish Philanthropies/CJP and the Mass Cultural Council.
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