“Juanita was an #artist who used #painting to delve into the deepest aspects of her life and she showed tremendous #courage in the face of overwhelming adversity,” collector Mera Rubell said in a statement.
As with much of McNeely’s most powerful work, this painting deals with the #LivedExperiences of #women told from a woman’s perspective: the difficulty of labor and birth, monthly menstruation and all that comes with it, and even raw sexuality.
Every one of the contributing writers to The Uncaged Voice — Stories by Writers in Exile has escaped arrest and torture in countries where #FreedomOfThePress and expression is more aspirational than realized.
( Forced #exile , grief, pressures of #assimilation and #GenerationalTrauma are recurring themes for many, if not most narratives about the refugee experience. They're at the heart of author Cecile Pin's first book, “Wandering Souls”, which recounts the lesser known stories of #Vietnamese#BoatPeople who fled to the #UnitedKingdom . She joined us for Perspective.)