Exhibition Introduction

 


My theme is the Feminine "Un-Mold." I was inspired by the typical feminine mold, which I, along with many others have never quite fit into. It's not only portrayed in our mainstream media but rather the representation of the most ideal female, however culturally different, still portrayed a body and sense of femininity that not all can connect with. This is also not to say that the portrayal is wrong, or even sexist, no. However, I believe that there is beauty in all nature and we are all a product of nature, therefore being no body more divine than the next. Regardless of my opinion, society, and even art, has put molds and stereotypes around females and what it means to be feminine, and those have become how we view the most ideal female. I wanted to discover more artists who threw this idea out the window and portrayed the people who moved them regardless of image and beauty. The woman that you would see in your local grocery store, for there is just as much beauty in her.

When selecting these pieces, I thought less about what the artist's true intention for their piece was (often there is none or more than one), and decided to choose pieces as I interpreted them. I, like many others, have consumed an endless amount of media, have been on the receiving end of being told to be more "feminine", and have always felt disconnected, even confused, from the word, which is exactly why I wanted my project to be focused on a different beauty that is not as society sees it but rather the individual.

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