Caitlin Keating - Mini Post

       Artist Victoria Van Dyke’s work critically addresses cultural, social, and political issues as it incorporates religion, sexuality, and violence. Van Dyke identifies as a feminist and a lot of her work reflects “the patriarchal treatment of young underage women as sex objects.” In such works, the women are nearly nude. Van Dyke’s work is often provocative - at the age of eleven years old she was raped and in her early adulthood she admitted herself to a mental asylum. Such events color the subjects of her work and contribute to the sometimes dark nature of them. She uses mostly photographs in her works accompanied by text that is commentary about society. Victoria Van Dyke’s work is currently being shown at The Lilith Gallery of Toronto.

http://artistbiographies.blogspot.com/2012/11/victoria-van-dyke.html
http://www.lilithgallery.com/gallery/victoria_vandyke.html

Victoria Van Dyke, Religious Fetish, 2007

Victoria Van Dyke, Embarrassment, 2007