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Babygirl–A Rite of Passage

September 18–21, 2024

Seven House Gallery

​35 Meadow Street

Brooklyn, New York 11206

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Exhibition Statement

Babygirl—A Rite of Passage, is a metaphorical pilgrimage of myself born into the suburbs of Tennessee with XX chromosomes, called ‘girl’, grown as ‘woman’, now living in New York. Having passed through several rites of passage to become ‘woman’, this body of work enacts a self-composed rite of passage to become ‘artist’. However, through the study I keep, the processes I explore, and the mediums I interplay, this creative crossing examines the rites of passage I’ve completed as well as the ones that lay before me.

 

In contemplating what lies ahead, I envision a daughter I don’t have to dig into what has been for women before, what has been for me, what is for us now, and what will be for her. Abstractly interweaving different mediums such as paint, fabric, collage, poetry, and text, I blur conventional boundaries to create a unique, personal language to speak with her. This language manifests into wall hangings, wearables, paintings, poems, and texts, culminating into a body of work for her to experience as if immersed in a visual journal.

 

Displaying this explorative, multi-media dialogue in the public’s eye, I simultaneously converse with a larger audience. Drawing from historical and contemporary art, text, and perspectives in the works, I’m inviting viewers to engage in the intimate questioning of what has been, what is, and what will be for themselves. This introspection dually points to the existential question, what has been, what is, and what will be for all peoples, reflecting back on the self, asking: what rites of passage will I fulfill, dispel, or conceive to mold the future?

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To read the complete journal of images, poems, notes, and concepts behind each artwork, download the PDF.  Physical copies can be purchased by contacting me.

Sadie Monroe’s “Babygirl — A Rite of Passage” Set to Stun at Seven House Gallery

ANTE Mag, article by Audra Lambert

Sadie Monroe: "Babygirl–A Rite of Passage" at Seven House Gallery

Create! Magazine, article by Alicia Puig

Sadie Monroe Interview: 'Babygirl—A Rite of Passage’

Domingo Comms, interview by Veronica Petty

Selected Press

© 2024 by Sadie Monroe

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