Shelby Head

Shelby Head

Providence, RI

My art practice challenges social and linguistic constructs in the United States through precisely crafted artworks organized into collections.

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Ask Jane by Shelby Head
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  • Ask Jane
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  • 12.5 x 15.5 x 3.25 in
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The assemblage fuses a coded plea with the stark symbol of a hanger, collapsing past and present. By invoking the Jane Collective’s clandestine care network of 1969–73, the work warns how today’s abortion limits resurrect the dangers they fought to undo. The layered frames read as legal cages, while the hanger becomes both threat and testimony.

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