Since 2005, Los Angeles-based artists Audrey Chan and Elana Mann have been revitalizing feminist practice with their collaborative projects that engage historic models of first- and second-wave feminist strategies fused with contemporary relational aesthetics and social engagement.
Chan is an artist, writer and educator whose work addresses civic discourse, rhetoric and the feminist construct [...]
Salt Lake Art Center - Utah
Curated by Micol Hebron
By Cara Despain
Using the shrewdly crafted writing of Hồ Xuân Hương, a revered 19th-century Vietnamese poetess, as a springboard, “Doublespeak” aims to examine female contemporary artists through tropes used historically by women to communicate: double entendre, coding and metaphor. In patriarchal/oppressive societies, women used such means to [...]
Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art - Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Curated by Denise Johnson and Rebecca Trawick
By Micol Hebron
As most women know, few things will invite a quicker escort out of the art world than having a baby. Despite the high numbers of artists with children, parenthood remains highly stigmatized in the contemporary art world. You can’t [...]
