(re)FOCUS: Mary Carlson, Karen Kilimnik, June Leaf, Ellen Lesperance, Helen O’Leary, Liliana Porter, and Ana Tiscornia is an important multi-generational group exhibit that features works probing the human condition through images and handmade processes. The show will be on view at Philadelphia Art Alliance through April 20th, 2024.
Taken together, the personal historic mythologies and structures of these seven artists provide a compelling visual chronicle of the enormous strengths, diversity, politics, and subtle sensitivities of women working today. The show, featuring work by Mary Carlson (CRF 2021) and Helen O’Leary (CRF 2023), is part of the city-wide commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts—a grassroots feminist project and one of the first large-scale surveys of the work of American women—which culminated in over 150 exhibitions, panels, lectures, workshops, and demonstrations. Click here for more details.
Image: Helen O’Leary, (re)focus. Writing the unwritable novel– shelter cost #2. Reclaimed pigment on reconstructed wood, linen. 58 x 71 x 37.5 inches