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First Thursday: Mother Winter
March 7, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
FreeSophia Shalmiyev’s art came directly out of the pages of her debut, Mother Winter, scenes painted from the book through a wish for temporary amnesia, as though the old story was a found object collecting dust on the top shelf of an ancient wardrobe. The amniotic folklore of hybrid creatures depicted in oils and acrylics are stand-ins for the real characters in the narrative. The absent mother gets to be a mermaid instead of a slumped-over drunk. The author gets a new story to tell.