Installation-How Long Has It Been Since You've Been Outside, Marietta College, 2022
"By using her art to step outside the sanitized views of mortality and grieving that permeate our culture, Hess has steadied herself and explored new emotional and psychological depths."
John Seed
Both secular and cosmic “Birthing Pains” contains a feminist creation myth that simultaneously refers to birth, consciousness and loss. Hess likes revisiting and updating themes from the past and “Birthing Pains” carries echoes of Botticelli’s Renaissance “Venus,” who is best described as a weightless Neo-Platonic ideal. Hess’ self-aware goddess can be seen as an emotionally charged icon of womanhood that embodies a less-idealized but more conscious deity born into anxious times. -John Seed, exhibition catalog Marietta College
Birthing Pains- 72" x 96" oil on canvas 2022
"Artist mothers have existed before the current time but we are now talking about it. embracing it. making work about it."
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oil on panel 24" x 30" 2021
oil on panel 24" x 30" 2021
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oil on panel 48" x 36" 2021
oil on panel 48" x 36" 2021
oil on panel 12" x 12" 2021
oil on panel 12" x 12" 2021
oil on panel 12" x 12" 2021
oil on panel 12" x 12" 2021
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oil on panel 12"x12" 2020