Soft Rebellions Exhibit
Series Title: Retrograde Venus
RETROGRADE: having motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies.
Series Statement: In Retrograde Venus, feminine archetypes slip their frames and transform through hand-cut paper collage, assemblage, vintage imagery, embellishments, stitching and bursts of saturated color, the artist reconstructs fragments of the 20th-century woman into mythical beings. Monochrome figures lifted from forgotten pages find renewed power in surreal worlds.
Welcome to a universe of reclaimed icons where works like Gaze, Fearless, Becoming, and Crowned invite viewers to reconsider femininity as an evolving defiantly self-authored narrative. Molt expands into metamorphosis and renewal embodying healing as rebellion.
In a Gentle Way
Refraction
Molt
Winter Queen
Crown
She The Tiger
Cosmic Huntress
Roll The Dice
Shell Study I-III
Gypset
Flora Persona I-III
Fearless
Beware of Cat
Geisha
EXTRAordinary
Gaze
Fragment
Title: In a Gentle Way (2025)
Series: Retrograde Venus
Medium: mixed media on canvas
Materials: paper, metallic beads
Dimensions: 4x4
Description: Gentleness can be radical. The quiet strength of subtle transformation, vulnerability and perception. Soft, understated gestures and awareness can create ripples of change, subtly making profound impact. The viewer is asked to consider how gentleness can be resistance.
Title: Refraction (2025)
Series: Retrograde Venus
Medium: mixed media on paper
Materials: paper, thread, gold frame
Dimensions: 3x3 paper, 4x4 frame
Description:
Fragmentation of identity and beauty via layered interplay of image and distortion. A reimagined classic portrait of serenity and beauty, disrupted by angular cuts and embedded elements, suggests shifting perception and fractured selfhood. The ornate frame is a boundary and embellishment containing the disruption within.
Refraction invites the viewer to question what remains intact when the surface is disrupted and how the self is seen, split, and reconstructed over time.