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On Jan. 11, a body of work by Aimée M. Everett – rooted in a rich history of Black women artists working in abstraction – will open at the Carver Museum ATX.
“Two Births and the Afterlife” explores the transformation experienced during childbirth and the subsequent journey of self-discovery into motherhood. With every birth, there exists a simultaneous death – the departure of one’s former identity to welcome a new, evolved self.
Everett’s work portrays the joy and simultaneous dissolution of familiar aspects of identity via minimalistic line-making, saturated colors and melodic compositions.
Like childbirth, the work is akin to “an emotional odyssey.”
– Hannah Van Sickle, The Austin 100