The enduring feminine spirit is diverse, ever-changing, a mystery, and beautiful all wrapped up into one. As far as art can remember, we have been drawn to the female archetype in all her complexities and contradictions. Her strength and vulnerabilities, her value, her abilities, and all of her possibilities. FEMME celebrates women, their allure, and their place in humanity.
FEMME
First Place- Durga
Second Place- Eliza Ann Harker Bennion
Third Place- Grandmother
Inner Nature
Empowered
Arbor Vita
Coiffure
Pandora
Erik Carter
oil on canvas
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Under The Surface 9
Angles and Curves
Anica Archip
photography
Brooklyn, New York
Judith, tcb
Callisto
Nice Day At Beach
Brian McBean
Prismacolor pencil and watercolor
Agoura Hills, California
Night shift
The Magenta Muse
Timothy Griffith
oil on canvas - all colors infused with quinacridone magenta
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Self portrait untitled
Charlene Avery
oil on canvas
Bridgewater Township, New Jersey
Two Women, Two Lovers
My Body My Choice
Balance
Camille With Veil
Aylla
Blue Lungs
The November Issue, No. 1
Lady Kulta
Christine VanSickle
acrylic on canvas
Two Rivers, Wisconsin
Kneesocks
Angela DeCenzo
digital print of instant film (from drum scanned file)
San Francisco, California
Self portrait
Siren
Armor 10/What Are You Looking At?
Winnie van der Rijn
repurposed menswear with mixed media weaving
New York, New York
CONTROL Garment #7
Transcending
Joan Zagrobelny
ceramic - hand built sculptural vessel with white terra sigillata inside and out
Sandwich, Massachusetts
Self Visitation
Mother Earth III
if it Wrinkles it Must be Real (detail)
Becoming Unbecoming
Somewhere in Time
The Awakening
Negotiations
Todd Fox
mixed media - clay (raku fired), faience, glaze, chicken wire, cheesecloth, found objects and repurposed items
Orlando, Florida
Ironclad
Party Dress
Susan Zimmerman
cotton thread - line drawing of dress created by sewing on water soluble substrate with various threads, later dissolved to leave only the thread
El Cerrito, California
Torn
Christine Kern
dyed handmade paper pulp & cast over a high fashion mannequin's torso
Granville, Ohio
We Come in All Sizes
Wedding Dress (27,645 Women Per Day)
Sonja Czekalski
yarn, steel wire, and handmade paper
Cumberland, Rhode Island
Classic Nude
Pollen
Female Confidence
The Scars of Womxn
My Day?
Marilyn Geary
fiber-commercial Japanese cotton, embroidered vintage towels
Woodacre, California
Nine Nipples
Beth Smith
mixed media - repurposed rubber shower mat, acrylic paint, plastic beads, embroidery floss, mounted on a recycled handkerchief over styrofoam
San Diego, California
Moisturizing the skin on my belly
Patriarchy Cook-Off
Willow [Queen of Hearts]
Kate Joiner
mixed media acrylic, glitter on wood (upcycled bed support)
Carlsbad, California
Everyone Has a Darkside
One Day
Little Dancer
Shades Drawn
Love my Sugar Daddy
Virginia Green
mixed media, paper mâché and US currency
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Handmaids Tell
Suffragette
Hot Pink
Girl with the Red Scarf, Orange Beads
Brightening the world
Foroozan Karimzadeh
acrylic on canvas, mixed media
Atlanta, Georgia
The Accepted Failure
Visitation
Narcissus 2
Ira Upin
oil, with tar bleed thru on paper on canvas on panel
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Blowing Wishes
tu es
To Serve Man
Hannah Baiye
Contemplations of an Empty Nest
Michael James
acrylic on canvas
San Jacinto, California
Pride Knows No Color
Middle Finger
meyekərā
photography
Los Angeles, California
Linda no.1
Peruana (Kulli Anqas)
Dani Coronado
acrylic and oil on panel
Kansas City, Missouri
Abigayle
Nancy Jo Ward
mixed media- digital painting, printed with archival inks on aluminum and hand-finished with acrylics
Santa Maria, California
Armament
Ashley Cecil
acrylic, block printing, and oil on canvas
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Scala ad Caelum
Venus is Trapped
Tiffany
Love Letters (detail)
Pre-Quarantine
Mercer Hanau
two-layer woodcut print, oil-based ink on kitakata paper
Seattle, Washington
Her Story
Hello Kitty
The Drifter
Jill Miyabara
clay
Silver Spring, Maryland
Early Light
Cabana
Babydoll
Cassandra Schifano
nylon, cotton thread, ceramic
South Bend, Indiana
Herod’s Wife 1
Mask #2
Julia Cangiano
charcoal on paper
Medford, Massachusetts
Self Portrait
Gypsy Eyes
Jean-Paul Aboudib
graphite on paper
Canton, Michigan