Superfood at Gallery Aferro!
Cathleen Marie Therese Parra detail “Osmosis”
Superfood @ Main Gallery in Gallery Aferro
April 11th – May 23rd 2015
Opening Reception April 11th 7 – 10pm
The ninth edition of _gaia studio’s Wonder Women Residency explores the social construction of Superfood. A generation after the birth of the Kraft cheese single and our recent turn back towards the natural, we turn to this newly fetishized landscape to reflect on how we shape it and it shapes us. With this in mind, Wonder Women invited artists to consider what is Superfood to women in their role in food communities, economies, and families. We challenged these artists to explore possibilities with women at the center of food cultivation, cooking, feeding, and nurturing. The shows work culminates into an investigation of medically enhanced drinking water, food as comfort, food as personal identity and food as prescription. Utilizing an array of mediums, the works will engage, inform and question these complex landscapes via painting, video, sculpture, interactive installation and relational aesthetics
_gaia is a collective of women artists and activists creating art, events and opportunities in the visual and media arts, performance and design. Its members actively promote and support the work of local women artists while developing programs that encourage collaboration and create community to help emerging artists in need of studio space, facilities and resources. In pursuit of raising awareness _gaia concentrates on activism, from issues in the local community and the art world to global issues affecting the lives of women.
The Artists:
Melissa MacAlpin
Sarah Nelson Wright
Lillian Ribeiro
Kate Eggleston
Cathleen Marie Thérèse Parra
Stephanie Tichenor
Claudia McNulty
Panda Suwann
Alyssa Lawler
Jacquelyn Strycker
Curated by Meredith Goncalves & Doris Cacoilo
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Jacquelyn Stryker’s detail “Mixt Tapes/Mix Tapes”
