Tag: modern art
Abigail Hammond creates unapologetically raw work that confronts the realities of menopause through sculpture, video, sound, and installation. After a 35-year career in costume design for dance and theatre, her practice shifted into something deeply personal, using her own body as both subject and material. Through detailed Jesmonite casts, performative video, and immersive installations, she captures the physical and emotional intensity of menopause without softening or aestheticizing it. Her work challenges silence and stigma, prioritizing truth over comfort, and often sparks powerful conversations in both gallery and public spaces. Rooted in…
Carola Helwing creates paintings that carry the memory of movement, shaped by her background in dance and deep understanding of the human body. Beginning with photographs of dancers, she transforms gesture into something more internal, capturing not just how movement looks, but how it feels from within. Her figures exist in a delicate balance between strength and fragility, where tension, control, and release unfold quietly across the canvas. Colour plays a central role, sometimes soft and atmospheric, other times bold and vivid, including pop tones that bring her work into a…
Cristina Rodriguez creates collages that transform torn paper fragments into powerful reflections on women’s identity and lived experience. Working entirely by hand, she cuts, tears, and layers found images to build compositions that feel both chaotic and deeply intentional. Her process mirrors the fragmentation of memory and the complexity of personal and collective narratives, where meaning emerges through juxtaposition and reconstruction. Influenced by literature, art, and lived experience, her work moves between vulnerability and resistance, inviting viewers to find themselves within the layers. Rather than presenting complete or resolved images, her…
If you’ve ever walked into a room and felt like the walls themselves were alive, you’ve experienced a little bit of what Rothko aimed for. Born in 1903 in Dvinsk (now Daugavpils, Latvia), Rothko emigrated to the United States as a child and later became one of the seminal figures of the Abstract Expressionist movement. What made his work stand out was his belief that colour alone, large fields of it, softly edged and hovering on the canvas, could evoke deep human emotion: tragedy, ecstasy, even the sense of the sublime.Rather…
We chose the theme “Faces” to celebrate visibility, vulnerability, and connection. This exhibition is a call to artists everywhere to bring faces to life not just as images, but as reflections of emotion, identity, and the shared human experience.
In this studio visit, Carola welcomes us into her bright upstairs space in Frankfurt am Main. She talks about how she creates her paintings, the role music plays in her process, and the comfort she finds in the rhythm of her work. Surrounded by light, color, and the quiet presence of her cat Max, Carola shares how her studio has become a place where movement and stillness meet.
What do faces mean to you identity, emotion, memory, or transformation? Across time and cultures, faces have been our most intimate storytellers, revealing and concealing, connecting and protecting. They hold laughter, silence, and the traces of every journey we’ve lived. Now, the **Women in Arts Network** invites **women-identifying and non-binary artists** from around the world to explore this timeless theme in our upcoming **international virtual exhibition**. Through your art, let faces become mirrors of humanity reflections of who we are, who we’ve been, and who we are becoming. Submit your work…