Megan Arné
My Eggs in One Basket
Acrylic on canvas
2022
We carry the genesis of our children's bodies within our bodies from the time of our own birth. When we grow one of those tiny parts of ourselves into a new creature, we are woven into the braided tradition of life-givers and set on a wild trajectory - simultaneously spiraling down into sorrow and up into joy.
Megan Arné is an emerging artist from Gorham, Maine. She received her BFA from Brigham Young University in 2018 and is currently in her last year of the MFA Painting program at Boston University. Megan’s work shifted dramatically with the birth of her second son in March, 2022. Using a lexicon of shapes and colors that symbolize the female body and how it births and feeds, Megan explores motherhood and invisible labor, as well as the triumphs and failures of her own physical body in terms of childbirth and caregiving. Megan has shown her work in a variety of venues in states of Utah, Massachusetts, New York in the United States and in Brazil. Her most recent exhibitions have been group shows at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Collar Works in Troy, New York.
