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Monica Rezman is a painter, textile designer, and most recently a photographer who currently splits her time between Chicago and India. She studied fine art and textile design at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Instituto Allende in Mexico. After completing her schooling, she moved to New York to pursue a career in Textile Design.
Wanting to explore new artistic territory she commenced an intensive study of classical drawing and Painting in Italy and continued studying at the school of Representational Art in Chicago..
Rezman has always been fascinated by ways women use personal adornment as A kind of language. Splitting time between the east and west has served to broaden her vocabulary.
Her current body of work comes from two sources: As a child, she watched her mother alter and augment her own hair with falls and wigs. Her three year old daughter is experimenting with female adornment the same way.
Using a very traditional form of oil painting techniques and charcoal she explores the subtleties, richness and mystery that the hair creations hold for her.
She is struck at how much feeling and emotion is revealed in a simple strand of hair. Eroticism, hope, sadness, and disappointment exist simultaneously in these works. |
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