Cherchez La Femme

The French phrase "look for the woman" is the jumping-off point of this curatorial crux that emplores diving into intersectionality via fourth-wave feminism and the personal meaning of womanhood. In this day and age, it is ever so prescient to be conscious that there is no single ideology, entity, or collective. From a political and power perspective, the presence of women is still very anecdotal. The necessity to highlight the varying lives and experiences of women of all ages, ethnicities, and sexualities is crucial to investigate what the idea of a woman or womanhood means in the visual arts in this new decade.

Each of the artists in this exhibition takes a distinctly post-modern approach to the presence of women and their experiences in contemporary culture, where even with the progress the ever-present political influence & policing of women’s bodies circumscribes the repertoire of legitimate actions available to women.