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Open Studios 2002 Artist:

Jody Mattison

Painting, Mixed Media
991 Tyler Street #211
Benicia, CA
tel: 925-997-3315

jodymattisongerman@yahoo.com
http://www.jodymattison.com


Bio:
MFA Academy of Art College: award-winner in Pro-Arts New Visions: Introductions ’01; Instructor of figure drawing, sketching and color theory at Academy of Art College; instructor at Civic Arts Education in Walnut Creek; numerous private commissions in local collections; member Arts Benicia and Pro Arts.


Artist's Statement:
My California upbringing is so vastly different from women all over our world; my sense of self, my need to be important as an individual is countered daily by the images of anonymous women under burkas, of young girls being sold into prostitution by their mothers. What are the messages? Why are women not owners of ourselves and our bodies? And why are we somehow complicit in this theft?