UNTITLED (TEETH IN PATTERN)

is a hybrid oil and silkscreen painting on a wooden panel. The image, lifted from the internet with the watermark still on it, represents my lack of dental care as a child.

Oil on Panel, 16x40", 2023.

This work was part of Nosy Mag’s Spoiled Lemons exhibit at Wall Space Gallery in January 2024.

Through contrasting images of clean and yellowing teeth arranged in a grid pattern, Untitled (Teeth in Pattern) draws attention to the extensive time periods between the artist's visits to the dentist-an issue that is familiar to many Indigenous people due to unequal and inadequate access to health care and resources With its realistic and nearly threatening imagery of teeth, Glabb's work challenges the viewer to reflect on class disparity and the rights of Indigenous peoples by addressing the social stigma surrounding phsical (and indirectly financial) insecurities.

The Post-Pop Art sensibility employed by Glabb reinforces this stance, suggesting the universality of the issue