Ciara Scales is an artist born in Ithaca New York currently working and living in Boston Massachusetts. Her disquieting and psychological paintings investigate the power dynamics that permeate women’s everyday lives. Her current body of work is rooted in stagings and photography of original sculptures composed to create narrative, which are then used as reference to create works in oil paint on canvas and panel. 

“My work deals with the question: how do I make people consider and care about the microaggressions women experience? Such as the small ways we are kept in invisible boxes, withheld and restrained. My paintings reveal the quiet existence of power dynamics that women encounter from girlhood to death. The power of the patriarchy over women, the power of a fetus over a woman's body, the power of the past and future over the present; one feeds off the other like a parasite. These things have the potential to corrode personhood and rob women of living for themselves.”