News
Mapping a Feminist Cosmos
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (223+ words) Without didacticism, Sandra V'squez de la Horra makes visible the connection between the exploitation of the natural world and the subordination of women. V'squez de la Horra's recycled motifs don't congeal into symbols so much as demonstrate how everything is…...
A Funkier, Feminist Form of Pattern and Decoration
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (378+ words) It was immediately apparent when I walked into Gray Gallery's spacious, living room-like uptown space that the dimensions of the four paintings in Judy Ledgerwood's exhibition were determined by those of the walls on which they hung.A single work…...
Beverly Semmes’s Feminist Palimpsests
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (332+ words) Semmes's work tends to lure viewers in with texture, color, or slightly absurd setups, but material sensuality quickly shades over into something more unsettling. As seen in this exhibition, her engagement with varied media is animated by a consistent sensibility…...
The Fraught Rapture of Seeing Other Women Onscreen
6+ mon, 1+ day ago (390+ words) Since the publication of John Berger's seminal 1972 Ways of Seeing, the specter of the "male gaze" has been at the forefront of much feminist art and film criticism. "Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at," he wrote....
Wen-Jen Deng: The Embedded Stitch
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (274+ words) The Embedded Stitch, curated by Ming Tuner and Luchia Meihua Lee, presents a selection of Deng's fiber-based artworks, offering viewers a poetic, layered narrative that bridges tradition and innovation, local knowledge and global dialogue. The show is on view from…...
Chinoiserie Through a Feminist Lens
10+ mon, 1+ hour ago (601+ words) Moon established the timeline and acquisition trends of imported porcelain to Hyperallergic, noting that while the earliest presence of the material in Europe dates back to the Medieval period, it was primarily available to princely collectors as a rare and…...