This print, inspired by Bernardi’s time at a site in Ethiopia, features her characteristic layers of color, as well as imagery such as human figures, skeletons, clothes, and furniture, suggestive of the remnants of human life found at an archaeological dig—or a far more ominous mass burial.
A woman’s hands grasp at a stone surface. The hands appear as part of the landscape itself, exuding energy as colorful rays of light.
Memory permeates the work of Mildred Howard, who often juxtaposes found objects or images to evoke a particular thought or idea.
This print was made during a six-month printmaking residency in Paris, during which Mary Lovelace O’Neal experienced one of the coldest Paris winters of the century.
Pictured here is Josephine Baker, an early 20th century dancer, actress, and symbol of women’s sexual liberation.
Chinese-American artist Hung Liu juxtaposes a historical photograph and a seemingly simple and innocuous object—the fortune cookie—to comment on complex histories of sexism, cultural appropriation, and orientalism associated with the immigration of Chinese women to America.
