Uta began her latest series of paintings – Women Crucified – created as a visual narrative of the suffering inflicted on women.
The US Supreme Court's Dobbs decision restricted access to safe and legal abortion, depriving women of their reproductive autonomy. The persistence of femicide and deaths related to childbirth around the globe is reflected in numbers. Every day, 137 women are killed by intimate partners or family members; 712 women die every day from pregnancy or childbirth. Growing up as a Catholic, she saw many images of the cross as a symbol of suffering. She asks: “Will men, families, religious leaders, society, ever stop controlling women and their bodies, enslaving them, abusing them, raping them, forcing them to give birth, risking their lives and health. The tyranny of reproductive and sexual control over women is the most persistent violation of human dignity.”
Hieronymus Bosch (1440-1515) is the only artist who painted the crucifixion of a woman, St. Wilgisfortis, ordered by her father for her Christian Faith and her refusal to marry.
Selfportrait with Uta von Naumburg
#1
Pastel on canvas
48 x 60 in
#2
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 60 in
Statue
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 60 in
African
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 60 in
Hijab
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 60 in
Grey Rising
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 72 in
Spirit
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 72 in
Grey Descending
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 72 in
Pixilated, Falling
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 72 in
Pixilated Flying off the Cross
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 72 in
Red
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 72 in
Dobbs
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 72 in
On Fire
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 72 in
Sliding into the Abyss
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 72 in
Red, Black, and White, Burning
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 72 in
Double Crossed
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 72 in
The Tree Cross
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 72 in
Forest Crucifixion
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 72 in