"Steady as She Goes," Rosemary Meza-DesPlas (Detail), hand-sewn human hair with watercolor
"The materiality of hair coincides with feminism and ethnicity at the point it speaks to issues of body image, femininity, anD Identity."
—Rosemary Meza-DesPlas
My Hair Story: from Brunette to Gray is a 22-year retrospective of multidisciplinary artist Rosemary Meza-DesPlas' hair drawing practice. Informed by decades of scholarship and personal experience, My Hair Story transmutes the multi-dimensional female experience into artworks that confront the sexualization of Latina bodies, gender-based burdens, & the relationship between sex, violence, and women in popular media. Wielding hair as a symbol of identity, Meza-DesPlas reveals the physical and psychological scars women bear as a result of living in a society that fetishizes and idealizes the bodies of women of color.
