Promotional image for the Latela Curatorial and Artsy Women in the Arts Exhibition featuring the work of Michelle Lisa Herman.

Two of my works, Let’s Talk Art and Untitled (Technology/Transformation), will be included in this online exhibition of over 80 women artists from the DC, Maryland, and Virginia areas organized by Latela Curatorial and Artsy. Women in the Arts will be online from October 12–November 22

Included in the programming is an artist panel I will be participating in on Thursday, October 15 at 5 pm – stay tuned for those details!

Purchase tickets to the VIP viewing room Sunday, October 11, 5–7 pm 

Register to see the exhibition October 12–November 22

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A carefully curated mix of artworks that depict – or encourage us to question – flesh across multiple media. What is flesh? How do we define/honor/observe/cover it? What is the woman artist’s role in speaking to such a subject?

Based on the 2004 study of the Metropolitan Museum of art in New York City by the Guerilla Girls, “Less than 3% of the artists in the Modern Art sections are women, but 83% of the nudes are female”. One of their original captains from 1989 asked “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met Museum?” The Guerilla Girls recently launched a campaign calling for “Help!” for all of the women (muses in paintings) trapped in the basements of the art museums on the Washington DC mall: another call to attention that museums still are not supporting enough women artists.

Is flesh only associated with the human body? We are exploring the fine details in these artworks as flesh: from hyper realistic drawings of liquor bottles to glass mosaics to sand on canvas. It’s all so… fleshy.

More About the Exhibition

The Latela Curatorial & Artsy: Women in the Arts Online Exhibition is a 6-week virtual exhibition featuring 80+ women artists working across multiple media from DC, MD & VA. Artworks are exhibited by themes or “viewing rooms” and accompanied by six full weeks of online programming, including artist talks, studio visits and more! Purchasing art made by women artists supports the gap in pay, auction market, press and exhibition representation of women in the arts.

Themes:

  1. Materiality – In the Flesh; Women who Work with their Hands & Across Various Materials

  2. Artist as Mother – Artist Mothers; The Creative Cycle & Ancestral Roles in Making Art

  3. The Idea – Abstract to Surrealism Art

  4. The Vision – Seeing & Being Seen

  5. Action & Existence; Activism Art & the Value of Collections/Collecting

  6. The Surrender – Trust & Process

DC, MD & VA are home to some of the most important museums in the world, however the emerging and mid-career art scenes across this area do not receive the same press, art fair representation or sales as competitive art meccas such as NYC, Miami or LA. Financially supporting this art scene communicates an investment to living artists and current culture; a commitment that is just as important as – if not more important than – appreciating museums and institutions. Purchasing artwork by women artists – especially those working so close in and around the Nation’s Capital during this political time – is an investment in the future of #womeninthearts.

 

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Latela Curatorial & Artsy: Women in the Arts Online Exhibition
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