Megan Hueble

“This work is personal, but not private. I am fascinated by the tangle of gender and religion, and explore it in my artwork. I’ve created a series of self portraits that loosely reference religious iconography. Women were not historically the artists to create religious art, not for want of talent, but a lack of opportunity. This absence of self representation perpetuated skewed ideas about women in the Christian West. In creating these portraits I present my own agency as a religious subject.

Using pages from my old prayer journals, I’ve recontextualized a record of my personal devotion. I’ve used these private thoughts to better serve (physically and spiritually) the person I am now. Illuminated manuscripts—which themselves are artifacts of faith—have informed much of my visual imagery. In addition to journal pages, I use graphite, watercolors, and office supplies to create mixed media installations. These changeable installations reflect an understanding of religion that is beautiful and messy, hurtful and lifegiving, changeable and grounding.”