Focusing on issues of identity as women, as artists, mothers, wives, daughters, and friends, these contemporary artists embrace their personal experiences in socially significant ways. Sometimes the work directly mirrors their own struggles, and at other times presents new realities in which their full power can be expressed.
These images and narratives convey truths about the inner lives of women and the ways they exist and interact in the world. A language of icons and symbols communicate deeply personal mythologies that relate conflicting feelings about sexuality, domesticity, motherhood, and female strength and vulnerabilities.
The intimate aspects of these artworks make them strong, relevant, and important today.
