"HERSTORY: Moving Forward": Maki Hajikano

Within this series, I illustrate a border or line that subsists, but at the same time its existence and appearance look fluidly ambiguous within its rigid form. This work depicts a dichotomy between the characteristics of line and orderliness. The outside border of the sculptures demonstrates explicit lines that define the shape and existence of the material as an object fashioned into abstract forms. Whereas, the implicit lines that form, where the two colors of glass blend together, create an ambiguous atmospheric quality within the unyielding form of the sculptures. This phenomenon resembles the paradox we often discover within ourselves.

"HERSTORY: Moving Forward": Chris Tucker Haggerty

In early America the quilt, composed of recycled pieces of cloth, was a vehicle of artistic expression and storytelling for women. This painting is from the series “Feminine Foothold,” which, through patterned symbols, tells the personal and generational history of the women in my family.

"HERSTORY: Moving Forward": Elizabeth Ginsberg

A  POWER  QUILT

“A  POWER  QUILT”  honors women of vision including civil rights activists, political leaders, pharaohs and chieftains.  The quilt-inspired collage draws upon the collaboration of women to create from scraps something both useful and beautiful.

"HERSTORY: Moving Forward": Deb Flagel

While building an infrastructure of shapes from the bottom up, an unforeseen disturbance was brewing on the horizon – directing me to reorganize and rebuild.

"HERSTORY: Moving Forward": Arlene Finger

“Pumpkin and the Desk”
18 x 24 inches; Pastel and marker
$1000.

"HERSTORY: Moving Forward": May DeViney

This is the history of a little girl who took dancing classes for only one year and was in one recital, “Talk of the Town”, costumed as a toreador.  She was proud of the experience and kept the costume forever but would never do it again.

"HERSTORY: Moving Forward": Irene Christensen

Women are nurturing and connected to the Earth in so many ways

"HERSTORY: Moving Forward": Reneé Borkow

 Flutter (from the corset series) symbolizes
and represents women’s social pressure in
society from the Victorian period up until
the present.  

"HERSTORY: Moving Forward": Jenny Belin

Marlene Dietrich was the queen of cool. This portrait pays homage to her style and her fierce independence: “I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.” Oh yes, Marlene was the queen of cool.

"HERSTORY: Moving Forward": Angelique Ellyn Anderson

This abstract digital collage 'African Mothers' is a very spiritual piece to me. 
As an African American in USA, I honor my ancestors who have brought me this far, that I can be free and dare to dream 
and be prosperous. It's because of their survival through all the horrors,
dehumanization and treacherous journey to
unknown lands. I owe everything to those mothers, their courage, dignity and
sacrifice that their children would carry their
dreams forward one day and RISE.

"HERSTORY: Moving Forward": Leslie Adkins

Currently creating work that speaks to the deep connection between BIPOC and nature. I place brown and black figures in communion with nature in a manner that symbolizes spiritual awakening and evokes ancestral healing practices.

"HERSTORY: Moving Forward": Marie-Ange Hoda Ackad

I use Augmented Reality / Magical Reality to create this series. I begin each piece with things that are real or tangible: items found in my studio, including among other things, open paint jars, a dried rose, books and magazines. Some of these elements are painted in oil and pigment on birch-wood panel while are others are photo impressions adhered to the surface.  

Instead of using digital imagery to alter the ‘real world’ environment that is represented on the painting’s surface, I draw on my   imagination, adding in lushly painted red lips ,exotic butterflies and sometimes people. This merging of real and imagined which I see as belonging together, creates a third world, yet another reality. 

"Incongruent Realities": Kunst Matrix Virtual Exhibition