Icarus Washed Ashore

Jennifer Weigel

Daedalus cradles his broken son’s body, feathers soaked with oil. The rig still looms in the distance, a greasy black stain upon the water.
The artist used motor oil on paper, and the work is based on images of the Deepwater Horizon spill.

Jennifer Weigel is a multidisciplinary mixed-media conceptual artist. Weigel utilizes a wide range of media to convey her ideas, including assemblage, drawing, fibers, installation, jewelry, painting, performance, photography, video, and text. Much of her work touches on themes of beauty, identity (especially gender identity), memory and forgetting, and institutional critique. Weigel’s art has been exhibited nationally in all 50 states and has won numerous awards.