Ever fascinated with the macabre, yet captivated by ideas of the feminine throughout history, I've settled into needlework as a means to explore my aesthetic preoccupations. The medium itself is laden with implications of gender and the domestic realm, providing a rich landscape against which to contrast and connote. These embroidered works illustrate vintage erotica crossed with animal elements, various bones and skeletons, field dressing scenes, and cuts of meat. The convergence of this delicate and tactile medium with often dark and unexpected images is meant to charm as well as disconcert—a warm invitation to question convention.
Marin Camille Hood
2011
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Marin Camille Hood lives and works in the Bay Area. She received her B.A. from Mills College in 2005. Working predominantly in embroidery, she uses macabre images to subvert expectations of the medium and its implications of gender through history. Marin has shown at Belljar Gallery, Fivepoints Arthouse, Mission17, and the SFSU Art Gallery in San Francisco, as well as the Parlour Gallery at Pretty Penny, Old Crow, and Nectar in Oakland, and Julie’s Café in Alameda.
Marin Camille Hood
2011
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Marin Camille Hood lives and works in the Bay Area. She received her B.A. from Mills College in 2005. Working predominantly in embroidery, she uses macabre images to subvert expectations of the medium and its implications of gender through history. Marin has shown at Belljar Gallery, Fivepoints Arthouse, Mission17, and the SFSU Art Gallery in San Francisco, as well as the Parlour Gallery at Pretty Penny, Old Crow, and Nectar in Oakland, and Julie’s Café in Alameda.
