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04.02.2022 - 00:28 / thegavoice.com
If you were to look up “perseverance” in the dictionary, you would find a picture of Jennifer Hart. Raised in rural Kentucky in a home with no running water or indoor plumbing, the only art she was exposed to was that of sewing and quilting.
“I was raised in a community that cared absolutely nothing about art. Nothing. Zero,” she told Georgia Voice. “Not only that, my mother was very abusive. She was obsessed with crushing the creativity out of me. I learned very early on to hide my creativity, to hide anything I made. I’m really not supposed to be making art. I’m not supposed to try to make a living as an artist. All of the factors that would encourage art didn’t exist for me. From a lot of fucking work, here I am.”
Flash forward to today, and Hart is using her quilting background to explore uncomfortable topics. The artist’s exhibit, “Sex, Drugs and Butterflies” is now on display at the rek Gallery, a commercial art gallery in Tucker dedicated to contemporary and eclectic Southern art. “Sex, Drugs and Butterflies” features 20 different quilts that together create a mosaic of Hart’s personal and artistic philosophy about perseverance, transformation, and the radical recognition of beauty in that which we discard.
With her work, Hart aims to bring humanity back to those whom we dehumanize. Most of the quilts featured in the exhibit feature nude and seminude portraits of a diverse array of people. Subjects span race, body type, gender identity, and sexuality — revealing the depth and variation of humanity — but all are formerly pornographic photos that she has transformed into tender quilted tributes to the subjects’ personhood.
“To me, the bodies are beautiful,” Hart said. “When I’m looking at the porn [that I’m
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