Curatorial Projects
Ties that Bind: Magic, Messages and Memories
Ties That Bind: Magic, Messages and Memories features Ellen Brook with Wendy Ackrell, Marie Cameron, Rozanne Hermelyn di Silvestro, Lisa Kairos, and Larraine Seiden in an exhibition hosted at Art Bias, San Carlos and curated by Karen M. Gutfreund. These six Bay Area women artists explore the various interpretations of connections, relationships, and bonds that link individuals through time and memory. [Read & See More]
Agency: Feminist Art and Power
Agency focuses on a vision for a positive, empowered future for women and girls, and their families. It is underpinned by the feminist principle that believes in political, economic and social parity for all. [Read & See More]
Deadlocked & Loaded
What does America value? Life or Liberty? Deadlocked and Loaded: Disarming America is a “locked and loaded” conversation through art, showcasing work in all media, that addresses our culture of violence and gun issues in the United States—particularly in how it affects women, children, and marginalized peoples. [Read & See More]
Not Normal: Art in the Age of Trump
Artists around the United States are raging against Donald Trump in visual protest. Not Normal: Art in the Age of Trump, Second Edition, documents this artistic movement in a curated collection. [Read & See More]
31 Women
Whitney Modern is pleased to present 31 Women, an exhibition curated by Marianne McGrath with Karen Gutfreund and Suzanne Whitney-Smedt. 31 Womencelebrates the work of 31 female artists in honor of Women’s History Month 2020. Women’s History Month annually commemorates women’s contributions to history, culture, and society throughout the United States. [Read & See More]
Embedded Messages
This exhibition examines the current political climate in regards to social justice — what is happening with America, can we still identify the American dream and if so, who does the dream apply to? [Read & See More]
F213 with NCWCA
This exhibition brings together nearly 100 national and Bay Area feminist artists and writers who are incensed about what is currently happening in the United States. F213 spotlights strong and bold artistic expressions of feminist protest. [Read & See More]
F*CK U! in the Most Loving Way
The goal of this exhibition F*ck U! In the Most Loving Way is to revisit the critiques of women’s relational roles presented in the 1972 landmark feminist Womanhouse exhibition by showing works that address women’s ongoing challenges to build their lives and thrive within structural and intersectional systems of oppression. [Read & See More]
A Series of Fragments of Moments
Examining the ways in which memory is constructed, it reflects how individual and collective memories shape our lives, leaving an indelible mark, manifesting in objects, words and dreams that can function as physical traces or intangible points of contact to the past. The works reflect the simple act of marking a specific time to the recording of memory to construct identity. [Read & See More]
NASTY
With a nod to President Elect Donald Trump’s misogynistic tenets, “NASTY” is an exhibition for and about those who challenge patriarchy and refuse to stay silent, creating a groundswell revolt with women artists who dare to speak up and speak out. [Read & See More]
Who’s Afraid of Feminism
Who’s Afraid of Feminism is a feminist exhibition presenting art from cross-generational, self-identified women artists that addresses feminism with a contemporary spin. These works incite the viewer to question the current social and political landscape, and the continuing need for gender equality. [Read & See More]
Views from the Edge
This feminist exhibition features the art of 24 women artists raising their voices to advocate for gender equality, women’s rights, and social justice. Works in all media range from the poetic to the psychological, from the personal to the political, and from representational to the abstract. [Read & See More]
Voices: An Artists Perspective
This is a feminist exhibition with 26 women artists raising their voices to tell individual stories that advocate for the fight for social, cultural, economic and political rights and the inclusion of all voices in its push for gender equality and identity using a woman’s voice as the visual narrative to effect change. [Read & See More]
Identity
“Identity” is an exhibition that address identity: In a world dominated by pop culture, society and the media – how is identity defined? [Read & See More]
Westbeth
National Juried Exhibition, with four exhibitions: presented by the Women’s Caucus for Art at the Westbeth Center for the Arts: Transforming Community: Disability, Diversity and Access, Ecology: The Difference Perception Makes, The Light Within: The Difference Spirituality Makes, and The Difference Community Art Makes. [Read & See More]
Eyes of the Mother
“Though the Eyes of the Mother” at the Korean Cultural Center of Chicago from February 8 – 15, 2014. Co-Curated this exhibition with Hey-Seong Tak Lee portraying the work of Korean and American artists. [Read & See More]
Equilibrium: Art for a Changing World
This exhibit seeks to explore the tensions, demands and challenges inherent in living in a rapidly changing world that expresses the multiple expressions of balance or its absence, which can range from abstract to representational, psychological to social, whimsical and poetic to political commentary. [Read & See More]
Stories We Tell
Stories We Tell is an exhibition that portrays the rich tradition of visual storytelling through women’s voices using visual narratives to make sense of our world and to share that understanding with others. [Read & See More]
Bound
With our prospectus for we asked for work on multiple expressions of “Bound”, that could range from literal to poetic, abstract to representational, and psychological to social and political commentary. We sought to show work that explores the concepts of bound and borders—be they internal, external, constructed, imagined, imposed, or embraced and how boundaries define and shape our identities, relationships, ideas and politics. [Read & See More]
Hidden Cities
Artists were invited to explore their idea of their Hidden City, real or imagined, in an array of media, with the theme broadly interpreted from an activist, political or personal context. No matter our place in society, we all have our Hidden City, a place of refuge from gender, race, class and sexual exclusions, a place that shapes the feminist viewpoint. [Read & See More]
Momentum
Momentum presents the art and ideas of contemporary women artists. Artists were invited to explore the idea of Momentum, in an array of media, with the theme broadly interpreted from an activist, political or personal context; to reflect on struggles and accomplishments and to portray how this inspires their work and momentum in moving ahead. [Read & See More]
Petroleum Paradox
With our prospectus for Petroleum Paradox: For Better or For Worse, we asked for works that stir emotions, discussion and debate about our petroleum-dependent world. Examples include, but were not limited to, works that address the impact of collecting, processing and delivering fossil fuel on the environment; global warming; the power of big oil companies to control countries and governments; an imagined life without fossil fuel; and life forms that were the origins of fossil fuel. [Read & See More]
Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze
This exhibition re-envisions gender, society and the politics of exposure. With a gallery filled with men stripped naked, this body of work exposes women’s cheeky, provocative and sometimes shocking commentaries on the opposite sex. The exhibition’s contemporary scope encompasses all the ways that women view Man-as-Object, reversing the traditional view of male artists objectifying women. Its diverse perspectives on masculinity come from straight, transsexual, transgender, lesbian and multi-cultural artists through a spectrum of media, from paintings to sculpture, installations to performance, video to social media. [Read & See More]
Honoring Women’s Rights
We asked for artwork that examines and explores the social, political and economic issues related to women’s activism. Historically, women have played a central role in the struggle for Civil Rights, yet their voices and experiences are generally ignored. We proposed an exhibition as a means of visually interpreting the struggle for women’s rights. [Read & See More]
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