Chicago – Woman Made Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of its new juried group show, The Emotional Body. The exhibition theme yielded an overwhelming response with more than 250 entries from which to choose. Works include painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, installation and mixed media by 35 women.
All the works share in common a portrayal of The Emotional Body, a woman’s journey in search of the boundaries of body, personality, and strength. The works broadly interpret and render “the body” expressively, relying on compositional and figurative dramatizations.
Exhibition Juror Elzbieta (Elka) Kazmierczak Kazmierczak is a printmaker, book artist, and designer who emigrated from Poland in 1990. She is a fellow of the Polish Ministry of Culture and Art (1987/88). For seven years she was Head of the Illustration Program at the University at Buffalo, NY. She is currently studying for a doctorate in Art Education at the University of Illinois.
Kazmierczak is interested in using creativity for empowerment of women. She has founded Art for Empowerment program at The Women’s Center (Carbondale, IL) for survivors of violence and organized exhibitions of survivors’ art.
Exhibiting Artists: Juliet Araujo, Nicoletta Braccioni, Fran Bull, Luanne Burke, Emily Cameron, Kira Campbell, Kimberly Carroll-Raber, Laura Cerf-Dahl, Esther Charbit, Irene Chendra, Cecile Comblen, Judy Cooperman, Heather Doyle-Maier, Iwona Duszek, Dena Eber, Mary Rachel Fanning, Sarah Gabel, Tina Garcia, Carolyn Halliday, Beata Rafflewska Jacobs, JoAnna Johnson, Amber Johnston, Catherine Kirkpatrick, Angela Lee, Shin Lim, Kim Maurer, Ruth Aizuss Migdal, Dora Natella, Meg Oakley, Yoonshin Park, Carrie Porter, Marci Rubin, W.F. Weill, Pamela Zimmerman, Cynthia Zordich.
