Elizabeth Erickson
5
plain
2020-07-27T07:17:03-07:00
Blue/Pink Light, 1994
acrylic
“You might expect there would be certain experiences and understandings unique to women artists that would find their way into the work, providing a discovery, a mirror of specific woman-culture. There are some patterns emerging: a concern with the relation between the rhythms of nature and the rhythms of her body; a concern with the political experience of being a woman at this time, and in the past; a concern with objects and rituals that are uniquely a part of woman’s day to day life; to name a few ...
This various-ness in image we have found, in itself, a statement: that women refuse to be catalogued and defined, that they are engaged in process and together constitute a presence that changes as it abides.”
– Elizabeth Erickson, in her introduction for the 1978 exhibition, Women Invite Women
