Art Space
Feminist Art
The Women's Studies suite offers our walls for University of Houston students to display their work. This art must deal with gender or feminist issues. One artist displays his/her work for the duration of the school year and may provide purchase information for each piece. Women's Studies holds an art opening for the artist in the Fall.
Current Exhibit
Jessica Childers, "Critical Introspection"
Artist Statement:
"My intention with my artwork is to convey various emotional states while remaining subtle and quiet. I hope to create paintings that communicate to the viewer a sense of frustration, anxiety, and discomfort, but almost on a subconscious level. In my paintings, I try to present situations that could almost appear to fit into reality, but at second glance betray convention. The subjects I choose are advanced in age; something that I think belies wisdom and experience, making whatever emotion they are made to represent more legitimate, and therefore more poignant. This also serves to question society’s concept of beauty—we are bombarded daily with perfect, airbrushed faces, but rarely notice the attractiveness in something flawed. This is an issue women (more so than men) can identify with. Old age also holds appeal to me because it seems to represent a time when some people are beginning to get more comfortable with themselves and who they are, because they have finally accepted and dismissed whatever insecurities they had at a younger age. I am also interested in interpersonal relationships, and what can be implied about them by the choices I make in color, composition, etc. when I construct a painting."
Previous Exhibit
Jessica Morrow, "Pushing Better"
Artist Statement:
"My recent work addresses an aspect of emotional isolation by examining the discrepancies between consumer ideals of beauty and the frailties of being human. The figures in the paintings are trapped between expectation and failure, desire and repulsion, and aspiration and contempt. They are mindful of their complicity even as they evidence willful alienation. It is my intent that this psychological struggle extend beyond the picture plane and into a social structure built on commodity. In this way, the work offers a broad cultural critique and opportunity for discussion."
Interested Artists
If you are interested in showing your work in the Women's Studies suite, please contact Holle or Luziris at wost@uh.edu.
