Monica Chulewicz
Bio
Monica Chulewicz is a Polish-American artist from New York. She makes prints and fiber arts which center on themes of mortality, fragility, and disability. To create most of her work, Chulewicz uses found, vintage materials. Chulewicz lives with multiple progressive and chronic illnesses. Chulewicz attended Adelphi University where she earned her BFA in Art and minors in Art History and Psychology. She has been awarded numerous accolades including an Anton Yelchin Foundation Artist’s Grant in 2019, the Grand Prize Emerging Young Artist Award from the Kennedy Center in 2016, a Wynn Newhouse Award in 2017, and grants from the IACA and Reimagine End of Life New York City.
(All information from Monica Chulewicz's website)
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Image Descriptions
"You Can Wake Up Earlier, You're Just Lazy" Description: A tapestry hangs from a black dowel affixed to a white wall. The background of the tapestry is composed of squares of blue fabric that are slightly different shades. On each square, the word "lazy" is written over and over in cursive. A pale pink vintage nightgown is affixed to this background. The night gown hangs down lower than the background. The night gown features lace frills and embroidered flowers on the chest section. Over the bottom right of the night gown, the artist has overlaid the same material as the background: patchworked blue squares with the word "lazy" written over and over. This fabric lays over the night gown in a crumpled fashion.
"Medical Limbo" Description: This print has a black and gray background. It contains ghostly, white silhouettes of two women with their arms around each other in the bottom left of the work. Behind the woman on the right is red paint, almost creating a shadow. This woman also has her left arm outstretched and where her hand would be is a circle of yellow paint. Around the figures are white painted words. They alternate font, some written in a dainty cursive, and others written in an all capitalized block print. Some words are on a noticeable slant. The words read "Trapped in medical limbo I haunt thy dwelling of in between I carry doubt on my back as progression follows and torments calls me a fool and in a foreign tongue it yells in my ear unable to be deciphered".
"I Thought It Would Never End" Description: This photo shows a royal blue tapestry handging on a white wall. In the center of the tapestry is a delicate, white lace dress. Depicted to the right of the dress is a ghostly bleach mark in the form of a single, dismembered hand and wrist. Curving up from the bottom left corner, to the top left, to the top right, and halfway down the right side of the tapestry are golden bees. There are a few ghostly, bleach bees as well.