Shana Kaplow | Group | Oil on Panels | 2004-05

I am investigating the individual body in dialogue with the body politic.  My paintings suggest a chorus of witnesses paradoxically caught between their complicity and their separateness.  I am interested in exploring what it means to be White in a racist society.  What limitations, pressures, or forces do Whites impose on each other that then transform into racism?  What is the interplay between assimilation and oppression?  I am interested in scratching at these unseen lessons.