The Good Mom As Long As the Feedings Are Veiled

by Mary Kearney Hull

“Girlhood overly sexualized, family secrets, personal denial and healing are pivotal themes in my artwork. My drawings, paintings and interactive work, explore traditional and nontraditional themes of cultural, political and gender identity in myself and the people I encounter. I like to bring the viewer into a very emotional space that might have one questioning what the subject is hiding from or trying to accept. Often met with an ambiguous uncertainty, I am questioning these narratives while relating them to cultural pasts within the history I grew up believing. In my drawing series, I am exploring how it feels to grow up identifying as female and what it feels like to have been a child of sexual abuse in my past.”