More than a photo documentary of illness, the artist uses her work to navigate personal transformation, reclaiming the body through images that question and empower.
Hot Topic: portraits by Kirsten McCrea
“‘Hot Topic’ is a series of 60 paintings that portray each person mentioned in the Le Tigre song of the same name. The song is a tribute to feminist heroes of all stripes: artists, activists, writers, musicians and others. In a world that celebrates Britney Spears but forgets the names of suffragists, the artist moves to solidify the memory of the underground superstars.
Comfort Women Wanted, Works by Chang-Jin Lee
Comfort Women, or “jugun ianfu” in Japanese, is the name used when referring to the more than 200, 000 women forced into prostitution by the Japanese military during World War II. Working in military brothels, known as Comfort Stations, the practice represents a government sanctioned from of sexual slavery.
Myth and Transformation
by Jennifer Linton The primary focus of my art practice has been to address gender-related issues and represent the experiences of women. Inspired by the second wave feminists, who coined the phrase ‘the personal is political’, my work reflects my personal experiences filtered through the lens of art history, mythology and popular culture. Many of [...]
In the Name of Joan: An Alter Ego Fights Back
by Cynthia Bellerose In 2002, at the age of 39, I began a year long process of preparing for my grand entrance into midlife, my forties. I called my year long preparation the year of Wrap-Up. It was time to face my sorrows of the past and address my pain and fears; to wrap up [...]
Holly Wong
Reflections: Women, War, and Suffering by Holly Wong Art has always been my voice of resistance, my way of making a contribution as a world citizen. In its best moment, art allows us to be more humane and fully aware, and it is the ability to imagine another’s experience of pain that is the first [...]
Vicky Brand
Letting Go, Moving On by Vicky Brand Growing up in our small town in Cheshire, I enjoyed an interesting life as the eldest of three sisters whose parents worked hard at a business making cardboard boxes for the catering trade. From an early age I loved to draw. I remember one picture in particular because [...]
Linda Vallejo
Nature Exposed by Diane Leon Ferdico “I always believed that I was a ‘person of the world’” says artist Linda Vallejo, who began painting at the age of four. Born in Los Angeles in 1951, her family moved often throughout her formative years, allowing her sense of self and cultural identity to be informed by [...]
Women in Dance: Ethnic Dance Photography
by Catherine Tully My photography career started out as a writing project. I had been involved in ballet for 30 years, and with each new season it had become more demanding on my body. My knees began to show signs of early arthritis, and I knew that I couldn’t keep going for much longer. After [...]
Eyes Are Blind by Taryn Wells
At first glance, I appear white. I could pass so to speak and being a person of mixed race, I identify with not one but all of the components of my racial makeup. However growing up in an all-white town, there was a tendency to be pigeonholed into one category. And in my case since [...]
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