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Devon Midori Hale is a visual artist based in Seattle, Washington. Her work explores civic, racial, and personal identity through the lens of intergenerational experience. Looking at the persistence of history in our present moment, she combines symbols of immortality and the past with the subtle intrusions of an observer from the present. In addition to painting solo in a studio, her practice often extends to working on community-based and public artworks that often include interdisciplinary collaboration. Often these projects draw imagery from within the psyche, allowing bits and pieces of objects, places, and memories to shape an abstract narrative.
"Reflections and Projections"Medium: Oil Paint on Canvas Artist Statement: I began these paintings as a way of processing my grief, my inherited grief, where did this start, where does it come from? Exploring the intergenerational impacts of my…