Mea Duke ’14
22鈥� x 26鈥�, oil on canvas, 2017
22鈥� x 26鈥�, oil on canvas, 2017
Award-winning artist Mea Duke has a unique perspective. Her paintings, prints, and sculptures often depict marine-related subjects, such as container ships or life jackets.
For many of her paintings, like this one, she references open-source press photos documenting modern maritime disasters to call attention to the operational reality of the global shipping industry. Here, she depicts a sinking barge in the Mississippi River.
鈥淭aking to the water,鈥� says Duke, 鈥渋s a deeply substantial part of our collective histories and modern existence. It embodies all of the challenges, dangers, triumphs, and absurdities that come with the territory.鈥� 鈥�