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Libby Rowe
Associate Professor of Art
UTSA
Dept. of Art and Art History
Like Panes of Glass explores the memorial
construct of the modern family as an ideal and a
reality. Having grown up in the Midwest during the
1970s and 1980s in a family of five, I experienced
“The American Dream” in all its idyllic glory. Since
then, I have watched my perfect family and the
perfect families of my friends crack and fade
into the dysfunctional state of the contemporary
American family. My “ideal family” images are
framed by the platonic shapes of domestic items,
trimmed and curated to conceal or shave away
imperfections, manufacturing memories of an
ideal family unit.
Catching Air, archival pigment print face-mounted to etched acrylic, 2017
My Replacement Baby, archival pigment print face-mounted to etched acrylic, 2017
