Vadis turner wiki

American mixed media artist

Vadis Turner (born 1977^[1]) is an American mixed media artist living in Tennessee.

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Her work encourages “the misbehaviors of domestic materials.”^[2] Exploring “the expressive possibilities of the grid,"^[3] many works are titled after maligned female figures.

"My content often draws from tragic heroines from Greek mythology, literature and shared experiences from different generations of women.

I partner these stories with domestic materials that have the potential to speak in some way…allowing them to transcend their intended functions, contradict their structural natures and betray traditional gender associations."^[4]

"Mannerist distortion is the ancestor of Surrealist fantasy, and Turner’s female grids—the distortion bespeaks their tragedy--are surrealist fantasies with an expressionistic twist." - Donald Kuspit, She Drank Gold Catalogue essay^[6]

Turner has had solo shows at the Vadis Turner - Brooklyn Museum LERE