Irene McCray

@Artist

Boulder County, CO, US

My paintings and drawings usually reflect very personal issues, but at other times I am responding to cultural concerns. My most recent work deals with both personal and cultural. It is a series that reflect on my mother in her final months with Alzheimer’s. Her image primarily honors my connection to her imaginal journeying that lengthens my life backwards in favor of her long ago, and respects the reversal of trust, from me in her to her in me. With the work I am also meaning to encourage visibility of our elders and oppose a general modern of dismissal of the old.

Vermont College of Fine Arts

MFA