http://www.sa.ucsb.edu/women/VisitourSpace/ArtGallery.aspx
For this week's art show review I decided to visit the SRB Women's Center Art Gallery. This art space holds workshops and displays pieces related to gender and social injustice. The work on display is usually done by locals or created from the workshops. The Women's Center Art Gallery has their own art curator that "updates the gallery quarterly, hosts art openings, workshops, and related events.
One piece in particular stood out to me, which consisted of some type of ink on wood panels. The detail in each face and the emotions it provoked was quite powerful. The women on the panel to the right are portrayed as broken, lost, beaten down. But the face to the left is the essence of power and strength. It seems as if this work reveals some type of transformation. How all around the world women are seen as the inferior gender yet it only takes one to emerge as an icon to others, invoking hope and a future.
It is nice to know that students have a place to put their art up for display. I also like how the theme of this art gallery revolves around gender issues, something I take great interest in.
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