Velvet Retreat | Janelle Beasley

Residency

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Written By Elsewhere Living Museum & Artist Residency

Velvet Retreat, Janelle Beasley (Bloomington, IN)
August 2016. Installation view. Velvet, acrylic, lighting gels, found wood.

Velvet Retreat is a celebration of the single-stall restroom, accentuating its qualities of privacy, comfort, and inclusion. Beasley worked to transform one of Elsewhere’s newly constructed restrooms into a more inviting space with colors, light, and textures not normally experienced in a bathroom. This comfortable installation acts as a prompt to consider practices of solidarity with those whose rights to access have been threatened.

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Aug 21, 2016

Janelle Beasley

Aug 21, 2016

Janelle Beasley is a collage artist from Bloomington, Indiana. She responds to the beauty and absurdity in vintage printed materials, domestic objects, and social guidance films. Using found images as personal symbols, she makes work about the psychology of idealism and morality. Janelle received a BFA in Printmaking from Indiana University in 2013 and is now the Works on Paper Preparator at the Eskenazi Museum of Art. She would like to dedicate her art endeavors to utopian feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Dada photomontage pioneer Hannah Höch.

During her time at Elsewhere, Beasley created Velvet Retreat.

Aug 21, 2016

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