Alumni Spotlight: Tenee’ Hart (MFA 2015) Exhibits at COOP Gallery, Nashville, TN

 

In skin deep, I navigate this thin membrane between vulnerability and performance. Turning to the materials closest to these closed-door rituals, the quiet witnesses of perfection and erasure – acts that shape how we are seen and how we learn to see ourselves. These materials come from domestic spaces – where expectations of femininity settle like a film of dust. I choose to unravel them, distort them, and in that undoing, they are pushed to a point where they strain against their own histories. 

 

skin deep invited viewers to look beneath the decorative and the desirable, to feel how the pursuit of the “ideal” can leave scars, and to recognize that what we dismiss as the surface is often the site of our deepest wounds.