This Thursday, October 15 at 5 pm I will be talking about my work on view in the Latela Curatorial and Artsy exhibition Women in the Arts.
The talk will be centered around the theme of “Materiality: In the Flesh” and will also be featuring fellow artists Amy Hughes Braden, Anna U Davis, Behnaz Babazadeh, and Mina Jafari.
How to Attend:
Register on the Latela Curatorial page (link at the very top of the site) in order to receive the Zoom link
Materiality :: In the Flesh Press Release
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.
The Latela Curatorial and Artsy exhibition Women in the Arts is now on view.
