Exhibition Catalog

Women Artists and the Body

Institute for Women and Art, Rutgers University
Curatorial Essays by Ferris Olin and Judith K. Brodsky
2014
Women Artists and the Body
Institute for Women and Art

Laura Splan...employs a variety of feminist materials and processes juxtaposing biomedical imagery with comfortable domestic imagery and craft processes. The supposedly familiar and benign are subverted by the anatomical and biological...she recombines images from beauty industry advertisements showing how the beauty industry uses medical imagery to justify their products, thus enticing potential buyers who are concerned about health as well as beauty.

Ferris Olin and Judith K. Brodsky