Vanitas

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Dimensions: 24" x 36"

Medium: Oil on canvas

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Vanitas is a genre of 17th Century Dutch painting that insert symbols of death in still life to remind viewers of their own mortality. This iteration by Amanda Ba also leads your eyes through each object in the arrangement from the still-lively roses that are in fact cut off from their roots to an orange and garlic peeled just enough to reveal their soft, vulnerable interiors.

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Amanda Ba

Born in Columbus, Ohio / Works in NYC

Amanda Ba (b. 1998) is a painter who lives and works in New York City. She was born in Columbus, Ohio, but spent the first five years of her life with her grandparents in Hefei, China. Diasporic memory is central to her work—vivid paintings that combine personal memory with psychosexual fantasy, featuring figures that challenge a predominantly white Western canon of figural painting. Working closely with queer and post-colonial theory, her interventions in the Cannon do not aim to solely celebrate her cultural identity and its inclusion, but to interrogate its formation.