Giancarlo Piccinini - Critical Artist Expression

Coping Habits, 2014

 Ms. Exposed, 2015

Bubblegum, 2015   

Sammie Dube, a 20-year-old north Jersey native, has found her home town of Sandyston, NJ, a parochial, traditionalist community just minutes from the Pennsylvanian border, an archetype for all things patriarchally au courant. In her short years as an artist, Sammie has found solace in openly expressing notions of feminism that have often been silenced by her community at large. Despite ridicule or comments of vulgarity, inappropriateness, etc. Sammie finds that her art effectively transcends the boundaries put in place by an unjust, systematically dominative practice. Sammie's art, however, is not activism per se, as she uses art as a means of self-stimulation, a coping mechanism of sorts to remedy pains felt throughout her life. Although Sammie identifies her 'pains' as motivation for her works, she is constantly exploring new ways of expressing issues she feels are necessary for people to understand and openly visualize if we as a species are ever to know peace. Her objective begins with undoing the silence that surrounds areas of discourse ironically dubbed as 'rude', sexuality, gender expectations, emotion, etc., to give the people who face injustice every day a chance at upholding what humanity should be. Other than spending her time pursuing virtue as an artist, Sammie is also an amateur writer and is on track to becoming a special effects makeup technician.