#aleah chapin

The Tempest by Aleah Chapin, 2013.

I feel strongly that things should be real. I wanted to show a different way of seeing and to get at something universally human. A woman’s body is a map of her journey through life.

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Photograph of Chapin by Maria Teicher.

Aleah Chapin’s painting, Auntie, won first place at the 2012 National Portrait Gallery exhibition of recent works in London.

She finds models for her art by persuading her mother’s friends to pose naked.