MAKING HER MARK

April 17 - June 5, 2016 - This multi-media exhibition features six women artists whose work either inverts stereotypes, or undermines assumptions about personal and cultural individuality. Lisa Ruyter creates brightly colored paintings basClaudia DeMonte calls our attention to the everyday events in a women life and her sculptures reflect the perception of women as the caretakers of society. Iraqi-American artist Hayv Kahraman works with calligraphy and Eastern references in her images of women. The drawings of Nigerian-born Toyin Odutola, mostly of men, broaden the platform of portraiture to create a narrative of place. Sarah Hinckley’s landscape abstractions impose a logic on the world that provides a meditative space and photographer Laurie Simmons challenges the viewer with her images of feminine beauty and style. The exhibition is organized by Lauren Della Monica.ed on American National Archives photography, a defining and generative archive of American identity.