The Female Body as Poetry

The Female Body as Poetry....."Poetry Milks the Unconscious" - Anne SextonThis exhibition brings together four women, Kim Keown, Blair Peters, Sandra Ramos, and Colette Standish, currently in the MFA program at the San Francisco Art Institute, who reference the female body via landscape, abstraction, and figuration within their work. Each artist uses the body to communicate their stories. Stories built over time and experience, told through the wisdom of age and expressed politically, metaphysically, and physiology. The eroticized body as a portal into other worlds seen through glass and mirror, the healing body, physically and mentally etched into painted abstract forms, the body as a metaphorical landscape in pre-film animation, and the body as a political tool in black and white photographs. All four Artists work both introspectively and socially simultaneously, making their work very unique. - Colette Standish, Curator