Kaitlyn Hollander

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Delphine Lithography April 2018 A portrait of my mother.

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The Real Film Photography, Digital, Screenprint, Waterless Lithography March 2018  The Real is an examination of our relationship between nature, social media, and ourselves.

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Over the Mountain (variant) 20″ x 30″ Woodblock, 2 of 2 November 2016

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Over the Mountain 20″ x 30″ Woodblock, 2 of 5 November 2016

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Longing 18 1/4″ x 12 1/4″ Screenprint, 1 of 12 March 2018 

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Bikes and Boards Logo Digital Club Website:  [Click here for Facebook Page] Main version of the logo created for Queen’s University’s Bikes and Boards Club.

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Bikes and Boards Logo (Variant) Digital  Club Website: [Click here for Facebook Page] Alternative Version of the logo created for Queen’s University’s Bikes and Boards Club.

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D̶e̶l̶i̶c̶i̶o̶u̶s̶ 20″ x 30″ Monoprint, Printmaking (1/1) October 2016

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Stale 22″ x 28″ Acrylic & Oil Painting March 2017 

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Untitled 24 1/4″ x 21″ Mixed Media Painting (paper, acrylic) on board August 2018 

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Worthless Installation Video, found objects, fabric, wood Approx. 2.5m x 4m (9ft x 14ft) December 2017 Video Link: https://youtu.be/_q0oFOgQhOY Notes on the Installation: - the video is rotated for the installation view on purpose - the video normally would continually loop - the book on the bed contains my record of the assault, as well as events occurring before and after the incident Special thanks to Zack Livingston for being my actor, as in my stand in sexual offender. Artist Statement: In the wake of #metoo, I began to think about my own experience with sexual assault. In January 2017, someone tried to forcibly kiss me in my own room; my refusal resulted in a slap. He was confused; why didn’t she want me? She talked about nudity, she must have been into me. I am an artist, we talk about nudity like it’s the morning news. 

There’s a lot of arguments that come up that imply that both sides had some fault, however, they’re hardly valid. In this case, I was the only female in the apartment, the other fifteen people were male playing games, he was one of two people later going to a club. He was the only one to be constantly stalking and eyeing me; I never invited him to my room, he followed me twice. There was no one else this was going to happen to but me. So in looking at this situation, I wondered about how he could find this sort of behavior to be normal; where did he learn it from? After I had slapped him he said “other girls do this to me”. I thought about the media that surrounds us and drew upon sitcoms and movies where often kissing a woman either leads to her being instantly attracted to the protagonist, or her refusal is laughed off. I thought about the kind of macho culture that says: this is the way to get the girl. At the same time though, they’re a student like me hoping to obtain a degree to get some sort of leg up in the world. As much as I hate this person, and believe me, if I wanted to smear them I have the ability to, they are human. In the aftermath of the incident, I was left feeling shaken. I reported him to my campus sexual assault services, opting to do an informal resolution as I believed going to the police wasn’t going to be worth it. He never came to the resolution, but the fear I see in his eyes when he sees me on campus tells me that he got the service’s calls. My experience is extremely mild in the scale of assault, but it demonstrates a disturbing point. The problem about the whole night perhaps wasn’t the incident itself, it was the fact he had asked for the scraps of my noodles I made earlier that night. This man obviously know the concept of asking permission, but can’t apply it to my body, to women’s bodies.

Why am I worth less than a bowl of noodles? 

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Untitled 48″ x 48″ Acrylic/Latex Painting    July 2015  Inspired by the works of Mark Rothko, commission piece. 

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The Beach 28″ x 22″ Oil Painting December 2016 Inspired by the works of Cecily Brown.

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EAT! EAT! EAT! (WIP) 20″ x 30″ Monoprint, Printmaking (1/1) October 2016

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Stare 20″ x 30″ Monoprint, Printmaking (1/1) October 2016

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Self Portrait with my Cat, Steel 30″ x 20″ Monoprint, Printmaking (1/1) October 2016 Portrait of me as a child with my beloved cat, Steel. As of this year, he is 13 and grumpy as ever.

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Defining Religion (series of 3) 21" x 30″ each Sharpie on Cellophane sheets attached to board April - May 2016

    Religion has been a ubiquitous concept in many societies throughout time  and as such, many have attempted to define religion. However, religion takes many forms with nothing that is truly central to its being. As a result, many scholars and people have their own definition of religion. This tryptic, created for the Contemporary Issues in Religion course, juxtaposes many of  the definitions of religions throughout time with artistic expression. Through the use of coloured lenses, each piece shows two different illustrations.

    The red illustration shows Karl Marx’s definition. He defines religion as ‘an opiate of the masses’; a tool for the bourgeoisie to keep proletarians concerned with the afterlife rather than a revolution in this life. In contrast, William James looks at religion though the individual’s approach and experience rather than through religious institutions.

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    The dark green shows Sigmund Freud’s view of religion; religion as a part of human psychology that acts as consolation through illusion. The orange represents Sui Generis definitions as a whole, which looks at religion as something to with divinity, holiness, or the sacred.

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    The light green illustration represents Emile Durkheim’s view that religion acts as a sort of social glue. Meanwhile, James George Fraser conceives religion in evolutionary terms as represented by the purple illustration. He believes that society’s system of understanding the world has from primitive magic, to religion and now to science.

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