Pizan's Garden

In 1405 the medieval scholar Christine de Pizan published The Book of the City of Ladies. Pizan imagined an allegorical walled city, built and governed by women and guided by three allegorical female figures: Reason, Rectitude, and Justice. This series imagines a garden in Pizan’s city, a similarly allegorical space that reflects on agency and self-determination. Each work alters a classical annunciation painting, isolating and focusing on the figure of Mary as an autonomous being.




Altered Annunciation with detail of Annunciation (Fra Bartolomeo, 1497)
2018
Acrylic, sprayed acrylic, archival pigmented inkjet on canvas
24 x 30 inches
Private Collection
Altered Annunciation with detail of The Merode Altarpiece (Workshop of Robert Campin c. 1427-32)
2018
Acrylic, sprayed acrylic, archival pigmented inkjet on canvas
24 x 30 inches
Private Collection
Altered Annunciation with detail of Annunciation (Leonardo da Vinci, c.1472-75)
2018
Acrylic, sprayed acrylic, archival pigmented inkjet on canvas
24 x 30 inches
Private Collection
Altered Annunciation with detail of The Cestello Annunciation (Sandro Botticelli, 1489)
2018
Acrylic, sprayed acrylic, archival pigmented inkjet on canvas
24 x 30 inches
Altered Annunciation with detail of Archangel Gabriel; The Virgin Annunciate (Gerard David, c.1510)
2018
Acrylic, sprayed acrylic, archival pigmented inkjet on canvas
24 x 30 inches
Altered Annunciation with detail of Annunciation (Fra Angelico, c.1440)
2018
Acrylic, sprayed acrylic, archival pigmented inkjet on canvas
24 x 30 inches
Altered Annunciation with detail of Annunciation (Master of the Straus Madonna, 1400-10)
2018
Acrylic, sprayed acrylic, archival pigmented inkjet on canvas
24 x 30 inches


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