Outsider Fair 2023
Stewart gallery will show the last works from the Murder of Crows, by artist Stephanie Wilde.
Murder of Crows is a body of work that speaks to the polarization of race, religion, and political views with a visual subtext of the historical pattern of prejudice.
The title is an emblematic reference to flock behavior, herding and the mob mentality that so often accompanies such actions. The issue of race has been imprinted on America from the original indigenous population to slavery, freedom and beyond. Our culture has justified the history of others, those unlike us, as being inferior; a prejudice that has impacted human development on both parts of the divide and now has reached a tipping point. The extremes are visible in the racial bias in the economy, income, crime, and the prison population. Religion, as well as race, has been brought into our political world to divide and judge.
