Amy DiGennaro

2008, graphite on paper, 40” x 60”

Image title: Marilyn the Sedulous, Hours of Bona Sforza

Image alternate text: A light-skinned, dark-haired woman in a bathroom is the central figure of a graphit e(pencil) drawing witha n elaborate border in the style of a "double wedding ring" quilt with cloth patterns that are abstract but include things like ladders and strange balloons. In the quilted medallions of the border are strange symbols like an "ear-horn" and a ladder floating. The woman holds a watch and sews on her own sleeve. Her body is a tree trunk woth an opening and she has a strange shadowy head coming out of her ear.

2008, graphite on paper, 30” x 45”

Image title: Christine the Intrepid, Hours of Bona Sforza

Image alternate text: A light-skinned, short-haired non-binary person in a pair of Mounty pants and high boots with a nest on their head and a bundle of sticks on their back tries to tie parachutes onto two small children in bird suits in a nest. The figure is drawn in graphite (pencil) in great details and looks somewhat transparent as it is superimposed over an antique map of Canada and grounded in what looks like a campground landscape. The drawing is bordered by an elaborate border formed by trees and narrative vignettes such as two children doing something by a puddle, a child huddled by some stairs, a rustic cabin in the woods; and at the bottom, the central figure sleeping in a tank top and boxer shorts surrounded by many figures that appear to be like nymphs or fairies guarding them.

2007, graphite on paper, 30” x 45”

Image title: After the So-Called Hours of Philip the Fair

Image alternate text: Graphite drawing of a light-skinned fanciful character who is pregnant and wears a tutu and has a house on their head. They have a shadowy head that looks like a hive of eyes coming out of one of their ears and hanging ominously over them.This image is superimposed over maps and grounded in a medieval looking walled garden landscape outside of which stylized boats sail on water. The image has a wide border around it, in which various flowers and leaves, fruits and insects have been drawn in graphite (pencil). there are also medallions in the border depicting various narrative scenes such as a gender-bending (bearded and breasted) godlike figure knitting at the top; a bearded man in a tutu seeming to pray by a large pasta pot out of which arises a shadowy head figure and behind which is the image of an elderly woman smiling, the same man kneeling in front of a burning bush out of whihc the gender-bending god figure hands him a banjo while wearing a T-shirt that reads: "Feminist Chicks Dig Me"; and on the bottom, that same man points down at a figure in a grave wearing a suit and Groucho Mark nose and glasses).