16 × 20”, acrylics
8 × 10”, acrylics
18 × 24”, acrylics
Acrylic on canvas, 10” x 10”, 2024
Acrylic on 12x16” canvas, 2024
Acrylic on 16x20” canvas, 2023
Acrylic on 16x20” canvas, 2023
12 x 16", Acrylic on canvas, 2024
12 x 16", acrylic on canvas, 2024
Acrylic on 12x16” canvas, 2011
Acrylic on 12x16” canvas, 2010
Acrylic on 9x11” canvas paper, 2015
Colored pencils and pen on paper, 2016
Colored pencils and pen on paper, 2016
Colored pencils and pen on paper, 2017
Colored pencils and pen on paper, 2017
Colored pencils and pen on paper, 2015
Colored pencils and pen on paper
Colored pencils and pen on paper, 2015
Colored pencils and pen on paper, 2019
Colored pencils and pen on paper, 2017
Colored pencils and pen on paper, 2018
Colored pencils and pen on paper, 2018
Colored pencils and pen on paper, 2018
Colored pencils and pen on paper, 2017
Two Dope Queens
Scene in Broad City where a man on the street tells them to smile
2019
Acrylic on canvas, embroidery thread
Minimalist abstract and representational embroidered line drawings created from photo references of the artist herself.
2024
2024
2015-16
Pen
Looking for participants! If interested, contact me at shaynadweimer@gmail.com
“Affirmations” is a series of portraits composed of words of Willamette community members, all of who are diagnosed with mental illnesses. The project started out as a series of candid conversations between each individual and myself in which we talked about our personal experiences, thoughts and sentiments about the experience of living with a mental illness. Out of these conversations emerged a theme: the struggle with stigma and notions associated with it that can create a discontinuity of identity and a sense of guilt. I then asked them to come up with an affirmation, or a phrase they tell themselves that helps them feel empowered in their current experience with mental health. I then used those words to draw their faces with, in an act of reclaiming their identity. In showing the faces together as a series, I intend to raise awareness of the commonness of mental illness and create a sense of community among those living with it.
"The moon has phases and so do I"
"Empathy and apathy"
"Accept imperfection"
"Every day I'm closer to new skin"
"At least the cat likes me"
"They are not the Me myself"
"I am not my illness; my illness is not my weakness"
"It's not your fault"
"Nothing lasts forever"
"You are more than what you make. You are more than what makes you"
Always be honest with yourself; we make decisions based on what we love.
Feeling insecure obscures the self
Do not tell me what to think
Women and men, we want to be ourselves; be proud.
She seems unsure; would he like her if she appears ugly(?)
