Community Canvas is an initiative presented by The Culture Show where GBH features artwork from community members on our Digital Mural.
Today’s mural, In Your Face by Jane Maxwell, focuses on acceptance contrasting perfection and the pressure women feel to look younger. Discarded vials, boxes, and instruction pamphlets from anti-aging products are stitched, sanded, glued, and stapled onto the panel.
“I’m interested in the duality of how women present to the outside world and their messier internal lives.” Maxwell says.
Maxwell is a fine artist from Boston. Beyond her art, she is the founder of Mood.org, a nonprofit that provides tweens and teens with proven, mental health tools to help them regulate their emotions in real time.
See more of Maxwell’s work on Instagram @janemaxwellstudio and janemaxwell.com
