{"id":26325,"date":"2016-08-03T03:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T10:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=26325"},"modified":"2016-08-04T15:26:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T22:26:31","slug":"catherine-graffam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/03\/catherine-graffam\/","title":{"rendered":"catherine graffam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/catherinegraffam.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26326\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/catherinegraffam.jpg\" alt=\"catherinegraffam\" width=\"584\" height=\"4145\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beautiful and haunting. This is the work of American painter <a href=\"http:\/\/catherinegraffam.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Catherine Graffam<\/a>. She paints other people too, but her self portraits take my breath away&#8230; So. Much.\u00a0<em>Emotion.\u00a0<\/em>Catherine is\u00a0a transgender woman\u00a0who explores the complex nature of gender identity. Going through <a href=\"http:\/\/catherinegraffam.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">her portfolio<\/a> chronologically is such a beautiful evolution.\u00a0Here are her own words about her work:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Portraits help me better understand the\u00a0<span class=\"details\">people in my life, including myself, and by painting or drawing I am able to build upon and express relationships. Self portraiture is a way of cathartically process my emotions, and regaining agency over my body.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Catherine&#8217;s work is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saatchiart.com\/tylerdgraffam#_=_\" target=\"_blank\">available on Saatchi Art.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beautiful and haunting. This is the work of American painter Catherine Graffam. She paints other people too, but her self portraits take my breath away&#8230; So. Much.\u00a0Emotion.\u00a0Catherine is\u00a0a transgender woman\u00a0who explores the complex nature of gender identity. Going through her portfolio chronologically is such a beautiful evolution.\u00a0Here are her own words about her work: &#8220;Portraits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26325"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26354,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26325\/revisions\/26354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}