Chelsea Gardiner is a mixed-media artist working out of Middle Tennessee. Her current body of work explores of the role of women as wives and mothers in American society and takes a look at the expectations placed on women within traditional gender roles. Drawing from her own experience as a stay-at-home mother, she creates tension and unease within the viewer through surreal imagery that teeters on the border of dystopia in an effort to bring maternal mental health to the foreground and highlight the day-to-day stressors of the homemaker.
Chelsea works in mixed media, incorporating sculptural elements within 2-D works and vice versa, although traditional oil paintings remain an important aspect of her creative practice. Chelsea typically works her ideas out digitally in the early stages of her creative process before putting the proverbial paint to canvas, and this tendency to work digitally informs her current body of work, which includes video projection and animation.
Chelsea works in mixed media, incorporating sculptural elements within 2-D works and vice versa, although traditional oil paintings remain an important aspect of her creative practice. Chelsea typically works her ideas out digitally in the early stages of her creative process before putting the proverbial paint to canvas, and this tendency to work digitally informs her current body of work, which includes video projection and animation.