virtuArt Gallery
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About the gallery:
Mac students who identify as disabled or neurodiverse share their art, writing, and performance work
In giving space to their expressions and voices, the gallery seeks to highlight the many talented members of our community. Browse their art and statements about their work below.
This portrait originally was done in my 2D design class. I wanted to explore the intersection between having a disability that affects speech versus communication as an overall medium. My disability is not something most people notice, however, continues to provide a foundation for how I view and experience the world.
Ashley Allen
she/her/hers
PTSD.movsocial anxiety disorder-avoidance.mov
"PTSD" (top) explores my childhood trauma...my movements here show efforts to pull myself upright, with some movements from ballet.
"social anxiety disorder" (bottom) [tries] to capture the feeling of fear and unsettledness. I picked a point to reach with my arm, signifying my hope for human contact.
Lu Chen
they/them/theirs
"alone, here" (left) is an acrylic on canvas painting; this works surrounds feelings of depreesion-related isolation and the distortion that brings to both body and space.
"I Took My Meds" (right) is a two-screen print on archival paper; this work is about the battle between needing prescription medications and addiction
Zarra TM
he/his and she/her
Farrah Fettig
she/her/hers
My work is titled "Anxiety Nightmares" and is done in the mediums of marker and pen. I created it in 2018. I created this piece because I wanted people to understand what having anxiety felt like. I’m in a much better state of mind now, but I want to let other people know that having a mental illness is valid and that I see you.
Vivian Tran
she/her
Grieving For My Death
vivian tran - grieving for my death (radical macaccess 21).pdf
El Alcala
they/them/theirs
Just your basic line drawing with pen and ink.
Drawings and paintings by Isu Muenala Reed (they/them/she/her)
